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d a head with a nick to receive the end of the screw-driver. Screws are much used to hold together pieces of wood or to fasten something; -- called also wood screws, and screw nails. See also Screw bolt, below.

parchment; a writing formed into a roll; a schedule; a list. The heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll. Isa. xxxiv. 4. Here is the scroll of every man's name. Shak.

To fasten with a seal; to attach together with a wafer, wax, or other substance causing adhesion; as, to seal a letter.

The fold or line formed by sewing together two pieces of cloth or leather.

, a machine for uniting the edges of sheet-metal plates by bending them and pinching them together.

A dish of crust or pastry and meat or fish, etc., cooked together in alternate layers, -- a common food of sailors; as, a three-decker sea pie.

To separate from a mass, and collect together about centers or along lines of fracture, as in the process of crystallization or solidification.

nd the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish. Seine boat, a boat specially constructed to carry and pay out a seine.

To bind or fasten together with a lashing of small stuff, as yarn or marline; as, to seize ropes.

The operation of fastening together or lashing.

attached to the frame of the engine. (b) A steam engine and boiler combined and fastened together; a portable steam engine.

A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.

n (Onoclea sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together. -- Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by sli…

To crowd, press, or drive together. [Obs.] Bacon.

Crowded; compact; dense; pressed together. Nor seemed it to relax their serried files. Milton.

To crowd; to press together.

e one's self in a state of enmity or opposition to. -- To set one's teeth, to press them together tightly. -- To set on foot, to set going; to put in motion; to start. -- To set out. (a) To assign; to allot; to mark off; to limit; as, to set out the share of each proprietor or heir of an estate; to set out the widow…

An iron pin, or bolt, for fitting planks closely together. Craig.

To unite or fasten together by stitches, as with a needle and thread. No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment. Mark ii. 21.

A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk; as, the apple-leaf sewer (Phoxopteris nubeculana)