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A staff or pole on which a vessel is supported between two persons. Suckling.

The pole flounder.

A spurlike device strapped to the boot, which enables one to climb a tree or pole; -- called often telegraph creepers.

ith combustible material, to be burned as a beacon; an open lamp or firrepan carried on a pole in nocturnal processions. Starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus. Milton. As a cresset true that darts its length Of beamy luster from a tower of strength. Wordsworth.

The dark space within the negative-pole glow at the cathode of a vacuum tube, observed only when the pressure is low enough to give a striated discharge; -- called also Crookes layer.

y; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.

shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

by words; to set forth; to describe. Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy. Walpole.

To reduce (an equation) in a lower degree. To depress the pole (Naut.), to cause the sidereal pole to appear lower or nearer the horizon, as by sailing toward the equator.

e dew-point is lower than the actual temperature of the atmosphere. -- Depression of the pole, its apparent sinking, as the spectator goes toward the equator. -- Depression of the visible horizon. (Astron.) Same as Dip of the horizon, under Dip.

take a position at right angles to the lines of magnetic force, and is repelled by either pole of the magnet.

Having two poles, as a magnetic bar.

fault; to exculpate. I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole.

hed to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

h polar distance (Astron.), the distance on the heavens of a heavenly body from the north pole. It is the complement of the declination. -- Zenith distance (Astron.), the arc on the heavens from a heavenly body to the zenith of the observer. It is the complement of the altitude. -- To keep one's distance, to stand al…

A judge; an umpire. [Obs.] Hampole.

A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

The Dragon, a northern constellation within which is the north pole of the ecliptic.

g heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibrium, whether from a chemical, physical, or mechanical, cause.

rty of being attracted by an electro-positive body, or a tendency to pass to the positive pole in electrolysis, by the law that opposite electricities attract each other.