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A single thing, composed of two pieces fitted to each other and used together; as, a pair of scissors; a pair of tongs; a pair of bellows.

A piece of cardboard, covered with linen and embroidered on one side; -- used to put over the chalice.

An oblong rectangular piece of cloth, worn by Roman ladies, and fastened with brooches.

One of the pieces or levers connected with the pendulum of a clock, or the balance of a watch, which receive the immediate impulse of the scape-wheel, or balance wheel. Brande & C.

A division; a distinct piece, limited part, or compartment of any surface; a patch; hence, a square of a checkered or plaided pattern.

A piece of parchment or a schedule, containing the names of persons summoned as jurors by the sheriff; hence, more generally, the whole jury. Blackstone.

ularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural.

A sheet, leaf, or piece of such substance.

a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

A piece of Turkish money, usually copper, the fortieth part of a piaster, or about one ninth of a cent.

(Mach.) A jointed system of links, rods, or bars, by which the motion of a reciprocating piece, as a piston rod, may be guided, either approximately or exactly in a straight line. Rankine. (b) (Mus.) The ascending or descending of two or more parts at fixed intervals, as thirds or sixths. -- Parallel rod (Locomotive…

A chitinous piece between the metasternum and the pleuron of certain insects.

A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.

A piece of a fallen wall; a ruin. [Obs.] Burton.

A piece of ground inclosed, and stored with beasts of the chase, which a man may have by prescription, or the king's grant. Mozley & W.

A chimney-piece. Halliwell.

, with others, a larger number, quantity, mass, etc., whether actually separate or not; a piece; a fragment; a fraction; a division; a member; a constituent. And kept back part of the price, . . . and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles'feet. Acts v. 2. Our ideas of extension and number -- do they not co…

A crumb or little piece of concecrated host.

he thin strips of wood let into the pulley stile to keep the sashes apart; also, the thin piece inserted in the window box to separate the weights. -- Parting tool (Mach.), a thin tool, used in turning or planing, for cutting a piece in two.

To strike; to crush; to smash; to dash in pieces. [Obs.] P. Plowman. "I'll pash him o'er the face." Shak.