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lled a triple alternative; such as, We must either stay where we are, proceed, or recede. Latham.

To enlarge in the way of bulk. [R.] Latham.

To invest. Latham. Tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high. Luke xxiv. 49. Endue them . . . with heavenly gifts. Book of Common Prayer.

driver, one who manages an engine; specifically, the engineer of a locomotive. -- Engine lathe. (Mach.) See under Lathe. -- Engine tool, a machine tool. J. Whitworth. -- Engine turning (Fine Arts), a method of ornamentation by means of a rose engine.

Inductive. Latham.

A leaping out. [R.] Latham.

Destitute of juice; dry; sapless. Latham.

roducing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.

as, actress, songstress, abbess, executrix. There are but few true feminines in English. Latham.

o, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.

Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

for fluting ruffles; -- called also Italian iron, or gaufering iron. Knight. -- Fluting lathe, a machine for forming spiral flutes, as on balusters, table legs, etc.

), a half beam to support a deck, where hatchways occur. -- Fork chuck (Wood Turning), a lathe center having two prongs for driving the work. -- Fork head. (a) The barbed head of an arrow. (b) The forked end of a rod which forms part of a knuckle joint. -- In fork. (Mining) A mine is said to be in fork, or an engine…

the opening of that gap. Knolles. It would make a great gap in your own honor. Shak. Gap lathe (Mach.), a turning lathe with a deep notch in the bed to admit of turning a short object of large diameter. -- To stand in the gap, to expose one's self for the protection of something; to make defense against any assailing…

striking the edge of the rail. -- Gauge glass, a glass tube for a water gauge. -- Gauge lathe, an automatic lathe for turning a round object having an irregular profile, as a baluster or chair round, to a templet or gauge. -- Gauge point, the diameter of a cylinder whose altitude is one inch, and contents equal to t…

An apparatus for performing a special function; gearing; as, the feed gear of a lathe.

To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs. Gibbed lathe, an engine lathe in which the tool carriage is held down to the bed by a gib instead of by a weight.

ollege or university; to become a graduate; to receive a diploma. He graduated at Oxford. Latham. He was brought to their bar and asked where he had graduated. Macaulay.

The season of fresh grass; spring. [Colloq.] Two years old next grass. Lathsm.

tton spinning machine. -- Grinding mill. (a) A mill for grinding grain. (b) A lapidary's lathe.