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n a case submitted."Impatient for the award." Cowper. An award had been given against. Gilpin.

ool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavie…

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

A spindle or axle of a wheel. [Obs.]

The business of keeping a baby farm.

by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. -- v. t.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

Custody; keeping. [Obs.] Silly Faunus now within their bail. Spenser.

To furnish or cover with bait, as a trap or hook. A crooked pin . . . bailed with a vile earthworm. W. Irving.

etween sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookkeeping), a paper showing the balances of the open accounts of a business, the debit and credit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balances correctly taken. -- Balance thermometer, a thermomet…

A variety of spinel ruby, of a pale rose red, or inclining to orange. See Spinel.

d left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

nk a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.