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harpen cutting tools; a whetstone; -- called also rubstone. Rub iron, an iron guard on a wagon body, against which a wheel rubs when cramped too much.

A low, heavy, continuous sound like that made by heavy wagons or the reverberation of thunder; a confused noise; as, the rumble of a railboard train. Clamor and rumble, and ringing and clatter. tennyson. Merged in the rumble of awakening day. H. James.

ngs animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: --

ally of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brooklite.

to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton.

A genus of palms from which sago is obtained.

A ragout or partky roasted game stewed with sauce, wine, bread, and condiments suited to provoke appetite.

used in London. J. Smith (Dict. econ. Plants). Saloop bush (Bot.), an Australian shrub (Rhagodia hastata) of the Goosefoot family, used for fodder.

the glacis or covert way of a besieged place by digging under cover of gabions, etc. Sap fagot (Mil.), a fascine about three feet long, used in sapping, to close the crevices between the gabions before the parapet is made. -- Sap roller (Mil.), a large gabion, six or seven feet long, filled with fascines, which the sa…

A combining form from Gr. flesh; as, sarcophagous, flesh- eating; sarcology.

A sort of petticoat worn by both sexes in Java and the Malay Archipelago. Balfour (Cyc. of India)

Breaking or destroying stones; saxifragous. [R.] -- n.

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is esentially a silicate of aluminia and soda.

Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

didynamous flowers and a two-celled pod. The order includes the mullein, foxglove, snapdragon, figwort, painted cup, yellow rattle, and some exotic trees, as the Paulownia.

The dragonet, or yellow sculpin, of Europe (Callionymus lura).

A pentagonal starfish.

A port on the seashore, or one accessible for seagoing vessels. Also used adjectively; as, a seaport town.

e nourish 'gainst our senate The cockle of rebellion, insolence, sedition. Shak. Noisy demagogues who had been accused of sedition. Macaulay.

The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change in passing to the imago state.