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part; as, exsert stamens. A small portion of the basal edge of the shell exserted. D. H. Barnes.

trument for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

o drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

hrough anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.

A bar with an eye at one or both ends.

al than the mass consists of, for purpose of deception, as the surface of a box of tea, a barrel of sugar, etc.

d or removed; easily conquerable; readily mastered. The facile gates of hell too slightly barred. Milton.

A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

gravity; to drop; to sink; as, the apple falls; the tide falls; the mercury falls in the barometer. I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. Luke x. 18.

aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

e floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered. [U.S.] Bartlett.

To make false; to represent falsely. The Irish bards use to forge and falsify everything as they list, to please or displease any man. Spenser.

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

(Arch.), a window over a door; -- so called from the semicircular form and radiating sash bars of those windows which are set in the circular heads of arched doorways. -- Fan shell (Zoöl.), any shell of the family Pectinidæ. See Scallop, n., 1. -- Fan tracery (Arch.), the decorative tracery on the surface of fan vaul…

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

Proud; haughty; disdainful. [Obs.] Barrow. Fas"tu*ous*ness, n. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate. "The fateful steel." J. Barlow.

Father in God, a title given to bishops. -- Father of lies, the Devil. -- Father of the bar, the oldest practitioner at the bar. -- Fathers of the city, the aldermen. -- Father of the Faithful. (a) Abraham. Rom. iv. Gal. iii. 6-9. (b) Mohammed, or one of the sultans, his successors. -- Father of the house, the mem…