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it in or connect strongly, skillfully, or nicely; to fit ingeniously or complexly. He put together a piece of joinery so crossly indented and whimsically dovetailed . . . that it was indeed a very curious show. Burke.

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

vance; to draw up, to form in array; to draw near, nigh, or towards, to approach; to draw together, to come together, to collect.

he shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale.

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

Dry pipe (Steam Engine), a pipe which conducts dry steam from a boiler. -- Dry plate (Photog.), a glass plate having a dry coating sensitive to light, upon which photographic negatives or pictures can be made, without moistening. -- Dry-plate process, the process of photographing with dry plates. -- Dry point. (Fine…

e dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. [R.] He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of the photogenic (light-producing) rays, and computing the power of object glasses.

mity to; near at hand. -- By the ears, in close contest; as, to set by the ears; to fall together by the ears; to be by the ears. -- Button ear (in dogs), an ear which falls forward and completely hides the inside. -- Ear finger, the little finger. -- Ear of Dionysius, a kind of ear trumpet with a flexible tube; --…

um), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

Flexible wood worked into the top of hedge stakes, to bind them together. [Obs.] Tusser.

An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

owel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together.

act of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

In a lump; as a whole; all together. "Movement of the ossicles en bloc." Nature.

To link together; to connect. Howell.

To be in gear, as two cogwheels working together.

To come together; to meet, as in sexual embrace. "I saw their mouths engender." Massinger.

To join or close fast together, as with glue; as, a coffer well englued. Gower.

To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.