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in all warm seas. The byssus consists of a large number of long, silky fibers, which have been used in manufacturing woven fabrics, as a curiosity.

narrow, wedge-lanceolate leaves, and an umbel of pretty nodding fragrant blossoms. It has been used in nephritic diseases. Called also prince's pine.

To pitch or throw with, or as with, a pitchfork. He has been pitchforked into the footguards. G. A. Sala.

ks were out of place. -- Place kick (Football), the act of kicking the ball after it has been placed on the ground. -- Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. -- To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. "Neither give place to the devil." Eph. iv. 27. "Let all the re…

An oyster which has been bedded, in distinction from one of natural growth.

The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

A writ issued in the third place, after two former writs have been disregarded. Mozley & W.

To take clandestinely or fraudulently. He pocketed pay in the names of men who had long been dead. Macaulay. To pocket a ball (Billiards), to drive a ball into a pocket of the table. -- To pocket an insult, affront, etc., to receive an affront without open resentment, or without seeking redress. "I must pocket up thes…

l not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law." Also, an analogous retention of a bill by a…

ce of wood; a tall, slender piece of timber; the stem of a small tree whose branches have been removed; as, specifically: (a) A carriage pole, a wooden bar extending from the front axle of a carriage between the wheel horses, by which the carriage is guided and held back. (b) A flag pole, a pole on which a flag is supp…

in a record of insurance policies. -- Policy holder, one to whom an insurance policy has been granted. -- Policy shop, a gambling place where one may bet on the numbers which will be drawn in lotteries. -- Valued policy, one in which the value of the goods, property, or interest insured is specified. -- Wager polic…

ch member of the jury to answer individually as to his concurrence in a verdict which has been rendered.

A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not been accepted by the person to whom it is made. Bouvier.

keleton is composed of silica, and is often very elegant in form and sculpture. Many have been found in the fossil state.

Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health. "Having been poorly in health." T. Scott.

especially, a kind the grains of which are small and compact. (b) Popped corn; which has been popped.

Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

A possessor; a property holder. [Obs.] "Possessioners of riches." E. Hall. Having been of old freemen and possessioners. Sir P. Sidney.

f that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world. Sharp.

A second or subsequent, at the customhouse, of goods which had been omitted by mistake.