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que vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

ht or hasty luncheon. Bait bug (Zoöl), a crustacean of the genus Hippa found burrowing in sandy beaches. See Anomura.

To leave heaped up; to heap up in piles. [Obs.] Ten thousand bold Scots, two and twenty knights, Balk'd in their own blood did Sir Walter see. Shak.

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

l trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

Lit., May you live ten thousand years; -- used in salutation of the emperor and as a battle cry. [Japan]

A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a river or harbor, obstructing navigation.

ore plant, or kelp. Ure. Copper barilla (Min.), native copper in granular form mixed with sand, an ore brought from Bolivia; -- called also Barilla de cobre.

A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

n armor-plated man-of-war built of steel and heavily armed, generally having from ten thousand to fifteen thousand tons displacement, and intended to be fit to meet the heaviest ships in line of battle.

The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand. Beach flea (Zoöl.), the common name of many species of amphipod Crustacea, of the family Orchestidæ, living on the sea beaches, and leaping like fleas. -- Beach grass (Bot.), a coarse grass (Ammophila aru…

To move with pulsation or throbbing. A thousand hearts beat happily. Byron.

A unit of resistance equal to one billion ohms, or one thousand megohms.

that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.

According to the French and American method of numeration, a thousand millions, or 1,000,000,000; according to the English method, a million millions, or 1,000,000,000,000. See Numeration.

trictly, the sound produces at one breath. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. The blast of triumph o'er thy grave. Bryant.

To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.

sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses. One act like this blots out a thousand crimes. Dryden.

he brain is specially affected; any acute cerebral affection attended by fever. -- Brain sand, calcareous matter found in the pineal gland.