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f an anchor, to secure the stock in place. Check nut, Jam nut, Lock nut, a nut which is screwed up tightly against another nut on the same bolt or screw, in order to prevent accidental unscrewing of the first nut. -- Nut buoy. See under Buoy. -- Nut coal, screened coal of a size smaller than stove coal and larger tha…

led in commemoration of our Savior's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, when the multitude strewed palm branches in the way.

hands of five persons; five joint rulers. P. Fletcher. "The pentarchy of the senses." A. Brewer.

To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop." Shak.

umbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

sthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.

, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost. Bacon.…

domineer over. The nobility could no longer endure to be ridden by bakers, cobblers, and brewers. Swift.

A brewer's vessel in which the fermentation is concluded, the yeast escaping through the bunghole.

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

See rewel bone. [Obs.]

One who strewed rushes on the floor at dances. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ascertain the quantity of saccharine matter in any solution, as the juice of a plant, or brewers' and distillers' worts. [Written also saccharometer.]

ecially, a pert child. Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A. Brewer.

To twist; to distort; as, to screw his visage. He screwed his face into a hardened smile. Dryden.

Sprinkled or sown; -- said of field, or a charge, when strewed or covered with small charges.

under Nut. -- Set screw (Mach.), a screw, sometimes cupped or printed at one end, and screwed through one part, as of a machine, tightly upon another part, to prevent the one from slipping upon the other. -- Set speech, a speech carefully prepared before it is delivered in public; a formal or methodical speech.…

e customary act of civility by clasping and moving hands, as an expression of greeting, farewell, good will, agreement, etc. -- To shake out a reef (Naut.), to untile the reef points and spread more canvas. -- To shake the bells. See under Bell. -- To shake the sails (Naut.), to luff up in the wind, causing the sail…

The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation. [Obs.] A. Brewer.

e bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures. -- Sonorous tumor (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion. -- So*no"rous*ly, adv. -- So*no"ro…