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A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough.

The half channel or groove in the edge of the triglyph in the Doric order.

led also rupture. Strangulated hernia, a hernia so tightly compressed in some part of the channel through which it has been protruded as to arrest its circulation, and produce swelling of the protruded part. It may occur in recent or chronic hernia, but is more common in the latter.

A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. Prior. I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.

f the bottom of a harbor or other sheet of water, the depth of soundings, the position of channels and shoals, with the construction of charts exhibiting these particulars.

nners, and propelled on ice by sails; an ice yacht. (b) A strong steamboat for breaking a channel through ice. -- Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced c…

The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages, so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths or ducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins, etc. Ray.

een cells or cellules; as, intercellular substance, space, or fluids; intercellular blood channels.

o water, as land, by causing a stream to flow upon, over, or through it, as in artificial channels.

The water course of a street; a little canal or channel; a gutter; also, a puddle. Bp. Hall.

A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.

groove to receive a key which prevents one part from turning on the other. -- Key way, a channel for a key, in the hole of a piece which is keyed to a shaft; an internal key seat; -- called also key seat. -- Key wrench (Mach.), an adjustable wrench in which the movable jaw is made fast by a key. -- Power of the keys…

A channel or arm of the sea; a river; a stream; as, the channel between Staten Island and Bergen Neck is the Kill van Kull, or the Kills; -- used also in composition; as, Schuylkill, Catskill, etc.

A gutter, groove, or channel.

A system of bracing bars, not crossing each other in the middle, connecting the channel bars of a compound strut. Waddell.

A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice.

To keep within a channel by means of levees; as, to levee a river. [U. S.]

The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] Weale.

he wheel. -- Mill tail, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. -- Mill tooth, a grinder or molar tooth. -- Mill wheel, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. -- Roller mill, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between roll…

a vessel or ship; to perform the duties of a navigator; to use the waters as a highway or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot.