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A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

Pieces of timber bolted to certain parts of a mast tp support the trestletrees.

A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat, around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.

Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building.

Birdcatching or fowling. Shak. Birding piece, a fowling piece. Shak.

A piece used in the game of chess, bearing a representation of a bishop's miter; -- formerly called archer.

hing, such as may be bitten off or taken into the mouth; a morsel; a bite. Hence: A small piece of anything; a little; a mite.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

re a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement or neighborhood road. Carlton. In a blaze, on fire; burning with a flame; filled with, giving, or reflecting light; e…

A piece of wood more or less bulky; a solid mass of wood, stone, etc., usually with one or more plane, or approximately plane, faces; as, a block on which a butcher chops his meat; a block by which to mount a horse; children's playing blocks, etc. Now all our neighbors' chimneys smoke, And Christmas blocks are burning.…

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

e dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over. -- To blow up, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

A piece of timber sawed thin, and of considerable length and breadth as compared with the thickness, -- used for building, etc.

A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.

The little rounded piece of wood, at the end of a latch string, which is pulled to raise the latch.