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A door, valve, or other device, for stopping the passage of water through a dam, lock, pipe, etc.

etc., the distance between the wheels; -- ordinarily called the track. -- Gauge cock, a stop cock used as a try cock for ascertaining the height of the water level in a steam boiler. -- Gauge concussion (Railroads), the jar caused by a car-wheel flange striking the edge of the rail. -- Gauge glass, a glass tube for…

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

ent the name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell. The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of Hell. Milton.

A precious stone of any kind, as the ruby, emerald, topaz, sapphire, beryl, spinel, etc., especially when cut and polished for ornament; a jewel. Milton.

An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

monds, pistachios, filberts, or other nuts; also, a rich currant cake with almonds on the top.

A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. Balfour.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest. [Obs.] Kersey.

A kind of gallows; an upright post with an arm projecting from the top, on which, formerly, malefactors were hanged in chains, and their bodies allowed to remain asa warning.

A top or whirligig; any little thing that is whirled round in play. Thou disputest like an infant; go, whip thy gig. Shak.

for raising or moving heavy weights, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.

melopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.

ions was polar, and ice covered large portions of the northern hemisphere to the mountain tops. -- Glacial theory or hypothesis. (Geol.) See Glacier theory, under Glacier.

A four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two inside seats, calash top, and seats for driver and footman.

A kind of Highland Scotch cap for men, with straight sides and a hollow top sloping to the back, where it is parted and held together by ribbons or strings.

The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).

One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.

The transplanting of a portion of flesh or skin to a denuded surface; autoplasty.

n ore metallic tin smelted with charcoal. -- Grain weevil (Zoöl.), a small red weevil (Sitophilus granarius), which destroys stored wheat and othar grain, by eating out the interior. -- Grain worm (Zoöl.), the larva of the grain moth. See grain moth, above. -- In grain, of a fast color; deeply seated; fixed; innate;…