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which the public opinion of the metropolis vented itself . . . Every man of the upper or middle class went daily to his coffeehouse to learn the news and discuss it. Every coffeehouse had one or more orators, to whose eloquence the crowd listened with admiration, and who soon became what the journalists of our own tim…

d allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals. -- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.

An actor or player in comedy. "The famous comedian, Roscius." Middleton.

o the comitia, or popular assembles of the Romans for electing officers and passing laws. Middleton.

A high officer in the monarhical establishments of the Middle Ages.

A deposit of coralliferous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.

A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskin tanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

of four years and a half, one on each side of the upper and of the lower jaw, between the middle teeth and the tushes.

In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women.

A measure of length; the distance from the elbow to the end of the middle finger; a cubit.

One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor. Counter-tenor clef (Mus.), the C clef when placed on the third line; -- also called alto clef.

s, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake. Encyc. Brit.

To cause to round upward; to make anything higher at the middle than at the edges, as the face of a machine pulley.

One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages. Azure-eyed and golden-haired, Forth the young crusaders fared. Longfellow.

A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger.

combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.

A cellar or excavation used for refuge from a cyclone, or tornado. [Middle U. S.]

of a race of giants, sons of Neptune and Amphitrite, having but one eye, and that in the middle of the forehead. They were fabled to inhabit Sicily, and to assist in the workshops of Vulcan, under Mt. Etna.