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Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

Lame; disabled; in a crippled condition. [R.] Mrs. Trollope.

A genus of orchidaceous plants including the lady's slipper.

language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species. Milton has descriptions of morning. D. Webster.

Tending to describe; having the quality of representing; containing description; as, a descriptive figure; a descriptive phrase; a descriptive narration; a story descriptive of the age. Descriptive anatomy, that part of anatomy which treats of the forms and relations of parts, but not of their textures. -- Descriptive…

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.

That which falls in drops, as fat from meat in roasting. Dripping pan, a pan for receiving the fat which drips from meat in roasting.

Weak or rare. [Obs.]

A drip, when made of stone. See Drip, 2.

To ripen. [Obs.] Donne.

y applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

ace, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

A writing. [Obs.]

To whirl hither and thither. [Obs.]

A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubæa and Bæotia. Hence, a flux and reflux. Burke.

A copy; a transcript. [Obs.] Bailey.

Not in accordance with the doctrines of Scripture; unscriptural.

A ferricyanate; a ferricyanide. [R.]

Ferricyanic. [R.]