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Domestic vessels and utensils, as flagons, dishes, cups, etc., wrought in gold or silver.

-- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme. The prince did plot to be secretly gone. Sir H. Wotton.

Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.

oak (Bot.), the poison ivy; also, the more shrubby Rhus diversiloba of California and Oregon. Poison sac. (Zoöl.) Same as Poison gland, above. See Illust. under Fang. -- Poison sumac (Bot.), a poisonous shrub of the genus Rhus (R. venenata); -- also called poison ash, poison dogwood, and poison elder. It has pinnate…

, or dependent upon, the possession of poles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.

mirror arranged for seeing objects do not lie directly before the eye; -- called also diagonal, or side, opera glass.

Manganese dioxide, occurring in tetragonal crystals nearly as hard as quartz.

A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.

A combining form or prefix from Gr. poly`s, many; as, polygon, a figure of many angles; polyatomic, having many atoms; polychord, polyconic.

To throw, as a musket, diagonally across the body, with the lock in front, the right hand grasping the small of the stock, and the barrel sloping upward and crossing the point of the left shoulder; as, to port arms. Began to hem him round with ported spears. Milton. Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed…

Borne not erect, but diagonally athwart an escutcheon; as, a cross portate.

The return to his own country, and his former privileges, of a person who had gone to sojourn in a foreign country, or had been banished, or taken by an enemy. Burrill.

A vase with a separate cover, the body usually rounded or polygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size, and a rounded shoulder.

or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively. Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. Jeffrey.

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally. [Formerly written pointal.]

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. Swift.

A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

the divinity or the gods in any form of religion; as, Buddhist priests. "The priests of Dagon." 1 Sam. v. 5. Then the priest of Jupiter . . . brought oxen and garlands . . . and would have done sacrifice with the people. Acts xiv. 13. Every priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, th…