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To adjust or arrange according to size or bulk. Specifically:

A piece of timber used as a support, or to receive pressure. Specifically: (a) pl. (Naut.)

One who skirmishes. Specifically: pl. (Mil.)

A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.

The act of killing. Specifically:

Something lying in a reclining posture or position. Specifically: --

A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound. [Spelt variously slouthhound, sluthhound, etc.]

That which is thin and broad, like a slice. Specifically:

One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular saw of the lapidary.

That which makes smooth or sleek. Specifically:

That on which anything moves by sliding. Specifically:

Any covering easily slipped on. Specifically:

An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.

The matter secreted by any of the sebaceous glands. Specifically:

e surface by any means; as, to smooth a board with a plane; to smooth cloth with an iron. Specifically: --

Specifically, the more cultivated portion of any community in its social relations and influences; those who mutually give receive formal entertainments. Society of Jesus. See Jesuit. -- Society verses Etym: [a translation of F. vers de société], the lightest kind of lyrical poetry; verses for the amusement of polite…

making. -- Soda niter. See Nitratine. -- Soda salts, salts having sodium for the base; specifically, sodium sulphate or Glauber's salts. -- Soda waste, the waste material, consisting chiefly of calcium hydroxide and sulphide, which accumulates as a useless residue or side product in the ordinary Leblanc process of…

Specifically, a lay association for devotion or for charitable purposes.

To make soft or more soft. Specifically: --

(Chem.), a solution which is used as a reagent, and is of a known and standard strength; specifically, a normal solution, containing in each cubic centimeter as many milligrams of the element in question as the number representing its atomic weight; thus, a normal solution of silver nitrate would contain 107.7 mgr. of…