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l, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, a…

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

t reverend father. Robynson (More's Utopia). So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children. Fuller.

A species of pepper (Piper betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

ic drug made from the dried leaves and seed capsules of wild hemp (Cannabis Indica), and chewed or smoked in the East as a means of intoxication. See Hasheesh.

rican Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

To swallow without chewing; as, to bolt food.

His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

Breadthwise. Whewell.

An ax with a broad edge, for hewing timber.

To inclose [R.] Hewyt.

ity. Attribute superior sagacity and candor to those who held that side of the question. Whewell.

A yellow oil liquid, extracted from the shell of the cashew nut.

To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. My good blade carved the casques of men. Tennyson. A million wrinkles carved his skin. Tennyson.

A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.

e earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of some part of it, effected by internal causes. Whewell.

e action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

gency by which an effect is produced. The kind of causation by which vision is produced. Whewell. Law of universal causation, the theoretical or asserted law that every event or phenomenon results from, or is the sequel of, some previous event or phenomenon, which being present, the other is certain to take place.…

s, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell.