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Growing in brackish places or in salt marches.

Marches flooded by the tide. [Prov. Eng.] Above the salt, Below the salt, phrases which have survived the old custom, in the houses of people of rank, of placing a large saltcellar near the middle of a long table, the places above which were assigned to the guests of distinction, and those below to dependents, inferior…

A plant (Suæda maritima) of the Goosefoot family, growing in salt marches.

Sloping gradually; inclining; as, a shelving shore. Shak. "Shelving arches." Addison.

ach from one side of to the order; to stretch over as an arch. The rivers were spanned by arches of solid masonry. prescott.

and the inclosing right angle; or the space between the outer moldings of two contiguous arches and a horizontal line above them, or another arch above and inclosing them.

and violet." Sir I. Newton. Wit, . . . the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those things which it designs to represent. Dryden.

One who starches.

The science or art of cutting solids into certain figures or sections, as arches, and the like; especially, the art of stonecutting.

le from the associations of the past. Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath Gray.

A probe for searching a wound. The tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. Shak.

es of a church, often forming a rich arcade in the interior of the church, above the nave arches and below the clearstory windows.

Adorned with trophies. The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.

of Gothic architecture in England, under the Tudors, characterized by flat four-centered arches, shallow moldings, and a profusion of paneling on the walls.

A structure of considerable magnitude, usually with arches or supported on trestles, for carrying a road, as a railroad, high above the ground or water; a bridge; especially, one for crossing a valley or a gorge. Cf. Trestlework.

Fig.: Having deep sensibility. [R.] Bp. Reynolds. Visceral arches (Anat.), the bars or ridges between the visceral clefts. -- Visceral cavity or tube (Anat.), the ventral cavity of a vertebrate, which contains the alimentary canal, as distinguished from the dorsal, or cerebro-spinal, canal. -- Visceral clefts (Anat.)…

To grow wide or wider; to enlarge; to spread; to extend. Arches widen, and long aisles extend. Pope.

One who searches fro, or works upon, the wrecks of vessels, etc. Specifically: (a) One who visits a wreck for the purpose of plunder.

oral bone. In the lower vertebrates other bones may help to form it, and there may be two arches on each side of the skull, as in some reptiles. -- Zygomatic process, a process of the temporal or squamosal bone helping to form the zygomatic arch.