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, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail. Methought Love pitying me, when he saw this, Gave me your hands, the backs and palms to kiss. Donne.

The game played with such a club; hockey; shinney; bandy ball.

The woolly-skinned rhizoma or rootstock of a fern (Dicksonia barometz), which, when specially prepared and inverted, somewhat resembles a lamb; -- called also Scythian lamb.

An edible, spiny-finned fish, esp. of the genera Roccus, Labrax, and related genera. There are many species.

The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.

The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

That part of an early Christian church which was reserved for the higher clergy; the inner or eastern part of the chancel.

Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.]

d teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

A tin dinner pail. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

A bruptness of address; rude plainness. "Bluntness of speech." Boyle.

ooked by boiling; subjected to the action of a boiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.

ion of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and English bond, where the inner part of the wall is laid in the one method, the outer in the other.

Any thing or place resembling the breast; a supporting surface; an inner recess; the interior; as, the bosom of the earth. "The bosom of the ocean." Addison.

n; a separation and dispersion of the parts or members; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up of the government.

Gentle exercise, causing a quicker respiration. An after dinner's breath. Shak. Out of breath, breathless, exhausted; breathing with difficulty. -- Under one's breath, in low tones.

A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

The outer apartment or kitchen of a two-roomed house; -- opposed to ben, the inner room. [Scot.]