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ver with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

re each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and…

warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

or drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

tion of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scrafing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.

into a button by covering it with cloth. [Written also buttonmould.] Fossil buttonmolds, joints of encrinites. See Encrinite.

A slender bony process from the ankle joint of bats, which helps to support the posterior part of the web, in flight.

place a cap upon the proper part of; as, to cap a post; to cap a gun. The bones next the joint are capped with a smooth cartilaginous substance. Derham.

fibrous. Capsular ligament (Anat.), a ligamentous bag or capsule surrounding many movable joints in the skeleton.

A membranous sac containing fluid, or investing an organ or joint; as, the capsule of the lens of the eye. Also, a capsulelike organ.

The basal joint of the maxilla in insects.

bones or cartilages of the carpus; a carpale. Carpal angle (Zoöl.), the angle at the last joint of the folded wing of a bird.

A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.

A weed with a sterm of many joints (Illecebrum verticillatum); also, the Polygonum aviculare or knotgrass.

attened, venomous kinds of the order Chilopoda, found in tropical climates. they are many-jointed, and have a great number of feet. [Written also centipede (

One of the jointed antenniform appendage of the posterior somites of cartain insects. Packard.