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] How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their. Waller.

As if; as though. [Obs. or Poetic] He lies, as he his bliss did know. Waller.

A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. Knight.

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

to soar. My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller.

d Gloucester for high treason. Miss Yonge. Attached column (Arch.), a column engaged in a wall, so that only a part of its circumference projects from it.

Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace.

nd." Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

-- Back filling (Arch.), the mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault. -- Back pressure. (Steam Engine) See under Pressure. -- Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in con…

The outer wall of a feudal castle. Hence: The space inclosed by it; the outer court. Holinshed.

The outer wall of a feudal castle. [Obs.]

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony in front of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

etimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.

aft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.

Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall- sided.

The territory without the walls, but within the legal limits, of a town or city. Brande & C.

piece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle. Hang out our banners on the outward walls. Shak.

An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.