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t will enlarge us from all restraints. Barrow. Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free vent to speech; to spread out discou…

A portion of a country which is separated from the main part and surrounded by politically alien territory. [Recent.]

The projection of any part of a building in a rounded form.

A concave filling in of a reëntrant angle where two surfaces meet, forming a rounded corner.

The space between the cusps in Gothic architecture; a rounded or leaflike ornament, in windows, niches, etc. A group of foils is called trefoil, quatrefoil, quinquefoil, etc., according to the number of arcs of which it is composed. Foil stone, an imitation of a jewel or precious stone.

strong or fortified place; usually, a small fortified place, occupied only by troops, surrounded with a ditch, rampart, and parapet, or with palisades, stockades, or other means of defense; a fortification. Detached works, depending solely on their own strength, belong to the class of works termed forts. Farrow.…

Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.

Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

Having a rounded form resembling that of a globe; globular, or nearly so; spherical. Milton.

A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.

An ornament produced by notching or carving a rounded molding.

nial ranunculaceous herb (Hydrastis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica æstiva); -- called also…

A rounded prominence on the back of a sepal, as in the common dock. See Grained, a., 4.

A conglomerate or grit rock, consisting of rounded pebbles sand firmly united together.

To fashion into groins; to build with groins. The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity. Emerson.

undation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly. Being rooted and grounded in love. Eph. iii. 17. So far from warranting any inference to the existence of a God, would, on the contrary, ground even an argument to his negation. Sir W. Hamilton

ularly spaced, like a diminutive battlement. -- Gutter plane, a carpenter's plane with a rounded bottom for planing out gutters. -- Gutter snipe, a neglected boy running at large; a street Arab. [Slang] -- Gutter stick (Printing), one of the pieces of furniture which separate pages in a form.

A genus of extinct oölitic fishes, having rounded teeth in several rows adapted for crushing.