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the ends dovetailed together at the corners, as in a log house; in marine work, often surrounding a central space filled with stones; as, a cobwork dock or breakwater.

A ring or round flange upon, surrounding, or against an object, and used for rastraining motion within given limits, or for holding something to its place, or for hibing an opening around an object; as, a collar on a shaft, used to prevent endwise motion of the shaft; a collar surrounding a stovepipe at the place where…

gredients, or parts; as, to compound a medicine. Incapacitating him from successfully compounding a tale of this sort. Sir W. Scott.

The external ear; esp. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.

The act or process of beating, bruising, or pounding; the state of being beaten or bruised.

The art or process of preparing food for the table, by dressing, compounding, and the application of heat.

e wicked; the cords of sin; the cords of vanity. The knots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson.

The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals. Core box (Founding), a box or mold, usually divisible, in which cores are molded. -- Core print (Founding), a projecting piece on a pattern which forms, in the mold, an impression for holding in place or steadying a core.

Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; as, the text of the manuscript is corrupt.

Abounding in bark; resembling bark; barky.

An open country abounding in sheepcotes, as in the Cotswold hills, in Gloucestershire, England. Cotswold sheep, a long-wooled breed of sheep, formerly common in the counties of Gloucester, Hereford, and Worcester, Eng.; -- so called from the Cotswold Hills. The breed is now chiefly amalgamated with others.…

To run through or over. The bounding steed courses the dusty plain. Pope.

of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in aithority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. Shak. Love rules the court, the camp, the grove. Sir. W. Scott.

Productive of, or abounding in, cramps. "This crampy country." Howitt.

A tool for making creases or beads, as in sheet iron, or for rounding small tubes.

Containing, or abounding in, creeks; characterized by creeks; like a creek; winding. "The creeky shore." Spenser.

Abounding in cresses. The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.

Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also…

That part of a bird, or the feathers, surrounding the cloacal opening; the under tail coverts.

The rounding, or rounded part, of the deck from a level line. (c) pl.