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Same as Monkey-puzzle.

Capable of being poured or spread round. "Circumfusile gold." Pope.

Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.

Made by baking, or exposing to heat, as a brick.

; to build. [Obs.] Before that Merlin died, he did intend A brazen wall in compass to compile. Spenser.

Compilation. [R.]

One who compiles; esp., one who makes books by compilation.

A projectile constructed so as to take the grooves of a rifle by means of a soft copper band firmly attached near its base or, formerly, by means of an envelope of soft metal. In small arms the modern projectile, having a soft core and harder jacket, is subjected to compression throughout the entire cylindrical part.…

perty of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance. Hixley. Contractile vacuole (Zoöl.), a pulsating cavity in the interior of a protozoan, supposed to be excretory in…

An open internal courtyard inclosed by the walls of a large dwelling house or other large and stately building.

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida c…

Having the tail cropped.

The lowest course of stones in a building.

United or fastened by a dovetailed joint.

One who curtails.

Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. "Dag- tailed sheep." Bp. Hall.

Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

Weak. [Obs.] Shak.

An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36º.

To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.