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by means of a lock or by interlacing; as, the door locks close. When it locked none might through it pass. Spenser. To lock into, to fit or slide into; as, they lock into each other. Boyle.

Dehiscent through the middle of the back of each cell; -- said of capsules.

An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.

Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.

the vernal equinox, on the ecliptic, to a circle at right angles to the ecliptic passing through the heavenly body whose longitude is designated; as, the longitude of Capella is 79º. Geocentric longitude (Astron.), the longitude of a heavenly body as seen from the earth. -- Heliocentric longitude, the longitude of a…

s, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively. My toes look through the overleather. Shak.

A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak.

A small opening, as in the walls of fortification, or in the bulkhead of a ship, through which small arms or other weapons may be discharged at an enemy.

ly; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner. We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics. J. Hannay.

s in Florida. -- Lubber's hole (Naut.), a hole in the floor of the "top," next the mast, through which sailors may go aloft without going over the rim by the futtock shrouds. It is considered by seamen as only fit to be used by lubbers. Totten. -- Lubber's line, point, or mark, a line or point in the compass case ind…

anything, as a rod, is attached, or against which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which a bolt passes, etc.

A unit of light flux, being the flux through one square meter of surface the illumination of which is uniform and of unit brightness.

A morbid suspension of good sense or judgment, as through fanaticism. Dr. H. More.

Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.

et in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

ing to, the genus Madrepora. Madreporic plate (Zoöl.), a perforated plate in echinoderms, through which water is admitted to the ambulacral tubes; -- called also madreporic tubercule.

ipping needle being horizontal. -- Magnetic field, or Field of magnetic force, any space through which magnet exerts its influence. -- Magnetic fluid, the hypothetical fluid whose existence was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism. -- Magnetic iron, or Magnetic iron ore. (Min.) Same as…

ectator. Magnifying glass, a lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it.