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cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during…

Fig.: Leadership; management. An artful stroke of generalship in Trim to raise a dust. Sterne.

Neat; trim. [Scot.] Burns.

ize or power. Giant's Causeway, a vast collection of basaltic pillars, in the county of Antrim on the northern coast of Ireland.

Smart; spruce; trim; nice. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

A dealer in drapery goods of various descriptions, as laces, silks, trimmings, etc.

Hamburg , a kind of embroidered work done by machinery on cambric or muslin; -- used for trimming. -- Hamburg lake, a purplish crimson pigment resembling cochineal.

Injury; hurt; damage; detriment; misfortune.

In framing, the piece of timber fitted between two trimmers, and supported by them, and carrying the ends of the tailpieces.

ies of plants, of only one kind of flowers; -- opposed to heteromorphism, dimorphism, and trimorphism.

Injury; damage; detriment; harm; mischief. Thou dost me yet but little hurt. Shak.

To cultivate, as land; to till. [R.] Land so trim and rarely husbanded. Evelyn.

tilization of pistils by stamens not of their own length, in heterogonously dimorphic and trimorphic flowers. Darwin.

Causing injury or harm; hurtful; harmful; detrimental; mischievous; as, acts injurious to health, credit, reputation, property, etc. Without being injurious to the memory of our English Pindar. Dryden.

or interests of an individual; that which injures, or occasions wrong, loss, damage, or detriment; harm; hurt; loss; mischief; wrong; evil; as, his health was impaired by a severe injury; slander is an injury to the character. For he that doeth injury shall receve that he did evil. Wyclif(Col. iii. 25). Many times we d…

decoration; thus, in joiner work, the doors and windows, inside shutters, door and window trimmings, paneled jams, baseboards, and sometimes flooring and stairs; in plaster work, the finishing coat, the cornices, centerpieces, etc.,; in painting, all simple painting of woodwork and plastering. -- Inside track, the inn…

g by a party that he or she is married to another, whereby a common reputation of their matrimony may ensue. Blackstone.

To unite in marriage. He that joineth his virgin in matrimony. Wyclif. What, therefore, God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. Matt. xix. 6.

- called, according to its position or use, binding joist, bridging joist, ceiling joist, trimming joist, etc. See Illust. of Double-framed floor, under Double, a.