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ine in number, of small iron balls, put together by means of cast-iron circular plates at top and bottom, with two rings, and a central connecting rod, in order to be used as a charge for a cannon. Formerly grapeshot were inclosed in canvas bags.

h. Panicum jumentorum. Herd's grass, in New England Timothy, in Pennsylvania and South Redtop. Indian grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass, co…

To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [Colloq.] When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North.

A step. See Gree, a step. [Obs.] The top of the ladder, or first greeze, is this. Latimer.

old fast; to embrace closely. Wouldst thou gripe both gain and pleasure Robynson (More's Utopia).

pecter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson (More's Utopia). Grisly bear. (Zoöl.) See under Grizzly.

esque action, speech, or manners; grotesque doings. "The sustained grotesquery of Feather-top." K. L. Bates.

States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.

ge with the land on either side to prevent lateral swaying; a rod or rope attached to the top of a structure, as of a derrick, and extending obliquely to the ground, where it is fastened.

A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.

A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.

Ability; aptitude. [Obs.] Robynson. (More's Utopia).

A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.

rough the action of concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively hæmatoporphyrin and hæmatolin, are formed in a similar manner.

Same as Hæmatoplastic.

A boot with a short top covering only the ankle. See Cocker, and Congress boot, under Congress.

A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, a flag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).

A stop in marching or walking, or in any action; arrest of progress. Without any halt they marched. Clarendon. [Lovers] soon in passion's war contest, Yet in their march soon make a halt. Davenant.

roof truss, called hammer-beam truss, which is so framed as not to have a tiebeam at the top of the wall. Each principal has two hammer-beams, which occupy the situation, and to some extent serve the purpose, of a tiebeam.