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A kind of patten mounted on short pieces of iron instead of rings; also, a fixture with iron points worn on a shoe to prevent one from slipping.

er directly or in an oven or retort; to incremate or incinerate; as, to cremate a corpse, instead of burying it.

A riding whip with a loop instead of a lash. Neck and crop, altogether; roughly and at once. [Colloq.]

The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write. Five Kentish abbesses . . . .subscribed their names and crosses. Fuller.

The reading of the lines of a newspaper directly across the page, instead of down the columns, thus producing a ludicrous combination of ideas.

ertaining to a rude kind of hieroglyphics, in which a thing is represented by its picture instead of by a symbol.

pause, or an unexpected or epigrammatic turn of sentiment. Dashes are also sometimes used instead of marks or parenthesis. John Wilson.

s of plants (Hemerocallis) closely resembling true lilies, but having tuberous rootstocks instead of bulbs. The common species have long narrow leaves and either yellow or tawny-orange flowers.

behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead center, or Dead point (Mach.), either of two points in the orbit of a crank, at which the crank and connecting rod lie a straight line…

having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented. Burrill.

An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant instead of on the key note.

id of defective vision, in which all the compound colors are resolvable into two elements instead of three. Sir J. Herschel.

ok of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

olors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.

feast in which the antiphon is doubled, hat is, said twice, before and after the Psalms, instead of only half being said, as in simple feasts. Shipley.

Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads.

To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it.

The process of smooth filing by working the file sidewise instead of lengthwise.

raphing with dry plates. -- Dry point. (Fine Arts) (a) An engraving made with the needle instead of the burin, in which the work is done nearly as in etching, but is finished without the use acid. (b) A print from such an engraving, usually upon paper. (c) Hence: The needle with which such an engraving is made. -- Dr…

A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.