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Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache. [Colloq.]

Rough brick masonry used to fill in the interstices of a wooden frame, in building.

o favors; hence, helpful; civil; kind. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison.

The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.

The act or process of fastening with pegs.

Paltry; quibbling; mean.

The act of stopping with a plug.

The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

That purges; cleansing. Purging flax (Bot.), an annual European plant of the genus Linum (L. catharticum); dwarf wild flax; -- so called from its use as a cathartic medicine.

a. & n. from Rage, v. i. -- Ra"*ging*ly, adv.

Executing revenge; revengeful. -- Re*ven"ging*ly, adv. Shak.

So as to form ridges.

rve as purchases for adjusting the sails, etc. See Illustr. of Ship and Sails. Running rigging (Naut.), all those ropes used in bracing the yards, making and shortening sail, etc., such as braces, sheets, halyards, clew lines, and the like. -- Standing rigging (Naut.), the shrouds and stays.

a & n. from Ring, v. Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.

In a ringing manner.

A coarse kind of woolen cloth, used for wrapping, blanketing, etc.

imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

Act or process of expelling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.

. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.

from Sing, v. Singing bird. (Zoöl.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. -- Singing book, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes. -- Singing falcon or hawk. (Zoöl.) See Chanting falcon, under Chanting. -- Singing fish (Zoöl.), a California toadfish…