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A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.

e steadily from one part of a machine to another, as an apron in a carding machine, or an inner spiral in a grain screen.

One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.

A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one.

The inner layer of the wall of the uterus, which envelops the embryo, forms a part of the placenta, and is discharged with it.

Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.

the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner. "An 't please your honor," quoth the peasant, "This same dessert is not so pleasant." Pope. Dessert spoon, a spoon used in eating dessert; a spoon intermediate in size between a teaspoon and a tablespoon. -- Dessert-spoonf…

Diluting; making thinner or weaker by admixture, esp. of water. Arbuthnot.

To make thinner or more liquid by admixture with something; to thin and dissolve by mixing. Mix their watery store. With the chyle's current, and dilute it more. Blackmore.

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of…

One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company. A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.

coccoliths, having an oval discoidal body, with a thick strongly refracting rim, and a thinner central portion. One of them measures about

sequence, beginning with a 5 or 9, the player who gets rid of his cards first being the winner.

From a greater to a less bulk, or from a thinner to a thicker consistence; as, to boil down in cookery, or in making decoctions. Arbuthnot.

g. Duke's coronet. See Illust. of Coronet. -- To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner. See under Dine.

of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

The inner layer of a ripened or fructified ovary.

The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.