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The light frame which holds the sheet of paper to the tympan in printing.

g cloak button, covered with netted thread, and fastening into a loop instead of a button hole.

the forehead; to manifest displeasure; to frown. [Obs.] The Commons frounced and stormed. Holland.

n its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

A hole or spot in a volcanic or other region, from which fumes issue.

merriment; frolicsome amusement. "Oddity, frolic, and fun." Goldsmith. To make fan of, to hold up to, or turn into, ridicule.

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

Furzy; gorsy. [Obs.] Holland.

which a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called also fuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for the reception of the fuse. Farrow.

A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse.

To talk idly; to prate; to chatter. Holinshed.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

r, in quarrying, a car which carries a drilling machine so arranged as to drill a line of holes.

To pry or hold open by means of a gag. Mouths gagged to such a wideness. Fortescue (Transl. ).

Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passage excavated by a boring or burrowing animal.

An oblong tray of wood or brass, with upright sides, for holding type which has been set, or is to be made up, etc.

A visit between whalers at sea; a holding of social intercourse between those on different vessels at sea, or (Local U. S.) between persons ashore.

the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed. -- Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.