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ering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. Bastard manchineel, a tree (Cameraria latifolia) of the East Indies, having similar poisonous properties. Lindley.

Cast steel containing a considerable percentage of manganese, which makes it very hard and tough. See Alloy steel, above.

Insensate. [Obs.] Wyclif.

A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

A needle. [Obs.] Shak.

See Nylghau.

A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.

See under Open.

To plunder; to pillage; to rob. [Obs.] But govern ill the nations under yoke, Peeling their provinces. Milton.

A graceful and swift South African antelope (Pelea capreola). The hair is woolly, and ash-gray on the back and sides. The horns are black, long, slender, straight, nearly smooth, and very sharp. Called also rheeboc, and rehboc.

One who peels or strips.

See 1st Peel. Sir W. Scott.

A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.

A steel in which the amount of phosphorus exceeds that of carbon.

A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of a machine tool, esp. an automatic machine tool, by hand.

To elect beforehand.

Election beforehand.

nce of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance (contredanse). Bartlett.

To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor.