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A click or pawl for driving a ratchet wheel.

The food of swine in the woods, as beechnuts, acorns, etc.; -- called also pawns.

A proteolytic ferment, like trypsin, present in the juice of the green fruit of the papaw (Carica Papaya) of tropical America.

; -- said of any animal on an escutcheon, which is represented as walking with the dexter paw raised.

See Pawl.

See 2d Pawn.

One of the superior men, distinguished from a pawn.

To pledge or pawn. [Obs.]

The act of pledging or pawning.

Pledging, pawning. [R.]

A pledge or pawn.

ng a species of bailment; also, that which is so delivered or deposited; something put in pawn.

ther piece, at the player's discretion) of by moving it to the eighth row; as, to queen a pawn.

Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of a beast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hind leg should be raised higher than the left. Rampant arch. (a) An arch which has one abutment higher than the other. (b) Same as Rampant vault, below. -- Rampant gardant (Her.), rampant, but…

A ratchet wheel, or notched bar, with which a pawl or chick works.

A pawl, click, or detent, for holding or propelling a ratchet wheel, or ratch, etc.

The ova or spawn of fishes and amphibians, especially when still inclosed in the ovarian membranes. Sometimes applied, loosely, to the sperm and the testes of the male.

A pile of arched tiles, used to catch and retain oyster spawn.

r channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn. To run a blockade, to get to, or away from, a blockaded port in safety. -- To run down. (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down, a stag. (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a…