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or helmet. [Perh. used only as a past part. or part. adj.] She that helmed was in starke stours. Chaucer.

A remarkable South American bird (Opisthocomus cristatus); the crested touraco. By some zoölogists it is made the type of a distinct order (Opisthocomi).

That branch of surveying which embraces the determination of the contour of the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.

An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

A variety of tourmaline of an indigo-blue color.

kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists. To stop the inundation of her tears. Shak.

s two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] For the whole army to joust and tourney. Holland.

rtain bounds, or whose duty was limited to a certain district. [Formerly written also limitour.] Chaucer. A limitour of the Gray Friars, in the time of his limitation, preached many times, and had one sermon at all times. Latimer.

The exterior limit of a figure, plat, or territory; boundary; contour; outline. Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of great Seleucia. Milton.

erval; distant in time; far away. The we may us reserve both fresh and strong Against the tournament, which is not long. Spenser.

ite from Luxullian, Cornwall, characterized by the presence of radiating groups of minute tourmaline crystals.

e line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.

A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. "The . . . bounds of his own perambulation." [Obs.] Holyday.

and polarizes the light. It is usually a reflecting plate, or a plate of some crystal, as tourmaline, or a doubly refracting crystal.

ed to negative crystal, or one in which this characteristic is reversed, as Iceland spar, tourmaline, etc. -- Positive degree (Gram.), that state of an adjective or adverb which denotes simple quality, without comparison or relation to increase or diminution; as, wise, noble. -- Positive electricity (Elec), the kind…

An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.

oceedings of public meetings, news, etc., for the newspapers. Of our tales judge and reportour. Chaucer.

A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.

to quartz when containing acicular crystals of other minerals, most commonly rutile, also tourmaline, actinolite, and the like.

barely. Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. Fairfax. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.