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A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.

See Spilikin.

A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, to prevent too great pressure on the dam.

Pills containing sulphate of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; -- called also Vallet's mass.

One who carried out the dead bodies of the poor at night for burial. Like vespilloes or grave makers. Sir T. Browne.

A waterspout. [Obs.]

To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

An instrument for examining the capillary vessels of animals and plants. Morin.

The ancients; the people of ancient times. That such pillars were raised by Seth all antiquity has Sir W. Raleigh.

t. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

Contrived without skill or art; inartistic. [R.] Artless and massy pillars. T. Warton.

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton.

A large pill, a form in which medicine is commonly given to horses; a bolus. White.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.

In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

iety, called the liquid barretter, wire is replace by a column of liquid in a very fine capillary tube.

The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue. [Obs.] If no basis bear my rising name. Pope.

(Zoöl.) See Koala. -- Bear baiting, the sport of baiting bears with dogs. -- Bear caterpillar (Zoöl.), the hairy larva of a moth, esp. of the genus Euprepia. -- Bear garden. (a) A place where bears are kept for diversion or fighting. (b) Any place where riotous conduct is common or permitted. M. Arnold. -- Bear le…

and before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton.