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A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.

One who toys; one who is full of trifling tricks; a trifler.

Any workman engaged in work involved in putting the track in place. [U. S. & Canada] -- Track"lay`ing, n.

A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge. [Corruptly written also tweer, and twier.] Tuyère arch, the embrasure, in the wall of a blast furnace through which the tuyère enters.

One who ties, or unites. [R.]

One who, or that which, underlays or is underlaid; a lower layer.

A lurcher. [Prov. Eng.]

A tuyère kept cool by water circulating within a casing. It is used for hot blast.

One who waylays another.

A young oak, or other timber plant, laid down in a hedge among the whitethorn or other plants used in hedges.

The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.

Purification by washing the hands before prayer; -- a Mohammedan rite. Heyse.

tor of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

A player on the accordion.

The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. Grove. Chose in action. (Law) See Chose. -- Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.…

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

rmances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor.

s a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience). The young hero had addressed his players to him for his assistance. Dryden.

The form of oath or appeal. Persons who . . . made use of prayer and adjurations. Addison.