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An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture. Furnished with the most rich and princely movables. Evelyn.

To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.

The rhythmical progression, pace, and tempo of a piece. "Any change of time is a change of movement." Busby.

A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.

A slender bar or pier which forms the division between the lights of windows, screens, etc.

Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces.

l cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [Obs.]

Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.] A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.

A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.

A show; a display. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

A slender, pointed piece of metal, usually with a head, used for fastening pieces of wood or other material together, by being driven into or through them.

ving little or nothing. [Obs.] [Men] that needy be and naughty, help them with thy goods. Piers Plowman.

part joining the knob to the base of the breech. -- Neck of a gun, the small part of the piece between the chase and the swell of the muzzle. -- Neck of a tooth (Anat.), the constriction between the root and the crown. -- Neck or nothing (Fig.), at all risks. -- Neck verse. (a) The verse formerly read to entitle a…

A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

le beam (Arch.), to shoring, the horizontal cross timber which goes through the wall or a pier, and upon which the weight of the wall rests, when a building is shored up to allow of alterations in the lower part. -- Needle furze (Bot.), a prickly leguminous plant of Western Europe; the petty whin (Genista Anglica). -…

One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. Piers Plowman.

Nose. [Obs.] Piers plowman.

A young bird which has not abandoned the nest. Piers Plowman.

rative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.…