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t wheel (Hydraul.), a noria. -- To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] Dryden. J. G. Saxe.

A potable liquid; a beverage. "Useful in potables." J. Philips.

A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.

Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.

Profitable; advantageous; useful. [Obs.] Harvey.

Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit, This I speak for your own profit. 1 Cor. vii. 35. If you dare do yourself a profit and a right. Shak.

Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession. What was so profitable to the empire became fatal to the emperor. Arbuthnot. -- Prof"it*a*ble*ness, n. -- Prof"it*a*bly, adv.…

Wood so decayed as to be dry, crumbly, and useful for tinder; touchwood.

ative (I dare not say feigned) friends." E. Hall. Thus things indifferent, being esteemed useful or pious, became customary, and then came for reverence into a putative and usurped authority. Jer. Taylor.

To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.

Superfluous matter separated from that which is useful; dross; scoria; as, the recrement of ore.

o and adjacent parts, and contains a relatively high percentage of protein. It is chiefly useful as feed for farm animals.

Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic. Where an suthor is redundant, mark those paragraphs to be retrenched. I. Watts.

e maintained without religion. Washington. Religion will attend you . . . as pleasant and useful companion in every proper place, and every temperate occupation of life. Buckminster.

To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past. It may be useful to retrospect to an early period. A. Hamilton.

The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.

An unsound or worn-out horse, useful as a hack, and commonly of good appearance. Ld. Lytton.

Useful office; advantage conferred; that which promotes interest or happiness; benefit; avail. The stork's plea, when taken in a net, was the service she did in picking up venomous creatures. L'Estrange.

Doing service; promoting happiness, interest, advantage, or any good; useful to any end; adapted to any good end use; beneficial; advantageous. "Serviceable to religion and learning". Atterbury. "Serviceable tools." Macaulay. I know thee well, a serviceable villain. Shak.

Hornblende slate (Min.), a slaty rock, consisting essentially of hornblende and feldspar, useful for flagging on account of its toughness. -- Slate ax or axe, a mattock with an ax end, used in shaping slates for roofs, and making holes in them for the nails. -- Slate clay (Geol.), an indurated clay, forming one of th…