Search the Dictionary

A low stool. [Scot.]

A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

A piece or part which passes over the head, as in a bridle.

State of being deceived; hallucination. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Foolish; silly; trifling. [R.]

An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.

The earwig.

To pierce; to impierce. [Obs.] Spenser.

To pierce. [Obs.] Shak.

One who espies. Harmar.

Taking an exception.

t, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved surfaces turned toward the object glass, and separated from each other by about half the sum of…

A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.

The part which first meets the eye; as:

An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

Head. In his headpiece he felt a sore pain. Spenser.

A piece of armor to protect the heels. Chesterfield.

Not perceiving, or not able to perceive. A. Baxter.

To pierce; to penetrate. [Obs.] Drayton.