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A short, heavy, double-breasted plaid coat, the design of which is large and striking. [Local, U. S.]

and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form. The drums presently striking up a march. Knolles. To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

The art of making and striking medals and coins. [Written also medallurgy.]

us Mitra. -- Miter square (Carp.), a bevel with an immovable arm at an angle of 45º, for striking lines on stuff to be mitered; also, a square with an arm adjustable to any angle. -- Miter wheels, a pair of bevel gears, of equal diameter, adapted for working together, usually with their axes at right angles.…

The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.

Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience. The description with equal patness may suit both. Barrow.

To make, by striking with the beak or a pointed instrument; as, to peck a hole in a tree.

In a peculiar manner; particulary; in a rare and striking degree; unusually.

The act of percussing, or striking one body against another; forcible collision, esp. such as gives a sound or report. Sir I. Newton.

Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.

Striking; having the power of striking. -- n.

(Dancing) A fancy step executed by jumping and striking the legs together; as, to cut a pigeonwing.

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

Pleasing by delicacy or grace; attracting, but not striking or impressing; of a pleasing and attractive form a color; having slight or diminutive beauty; neat or elegant without elevation or grandeur; pleasingly, but not grandly, conceived or expressed; as, a pretty face; a pretty flower; a pretty poem. This is the pre…

A striking or paradoxical assertion; an obscure saying; an enigma; a parable. His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb. John xvi. 29.

th force; to drive or impel by pressure; to endeavor to drive by steady pressure, without striking; -- opposed to draw. Sidelong had pushed a mountain from his seat. Milton.

f catgut or cord is stretched. It is furnished with a handle, and is used for catching or striking a ball in tennis and similar games. Each one [of the Indians] has a bat curved like a crosier, and ending in a racket. Bancroft.

An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let off the striking mechanism of a repeating clock.

ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore an atomic property, and is exp…