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projecting beam, truss, or bridge unsupported at the outer end; one which overhangs. Cantalever bridge, a bridge in which the principle of the cantalever is applied. It is usually a trussed bridge, composed of two portions reaching out from opposite banks, and supported near the middle of their own length on piers whi…

One of the bones or cartilages of the carpus; esp. one of the series articulating with the metacarpals.

A talebearer. [R.] Shak.

Wanting a syllable at the end, or terminating in an imperfect foot; as, a catalectic verse.

A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.

Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine. Shak.

The central, or one of the central, bones of the carpus or or tarsus. In the tarsus of man it is represented by the navicular.

Same as Zedoary. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

Designating furniture designed, or like that designed, by Thomas Chippendale, an English cabinetmaker of the 18th century. Chippendale furniture was generally of simple but graceful outline with delicately carved rococo ornamentation, sculptured either in the solid wood or, in the cheaper specimens, separately and glue…

rch or parish festival (as in commemoration of the dedication of a church), at which much ale was used. Wright. Nares.

the language of the Cingalese. -- a.

A feast for the benefit of the parish clerk. [Eng.] T. Warton.

One of a breed of heavy draft horses originally from Clydesdale, Scotland. They are about sixteen hands high and usually brown or bay.

One of a breed of small silky-haired terriers related to, but smaller than, the Skye terrier, having smaller and perfectly erect ears.

See Colliery.

To grow together; to unite by growth into one body; as, the parts separated by a wound coalesce.

The act or state of growing together, as similar parts; the act of uniting by natural affinity or attraction; the state of being united; union; concretion.

Growing together; cohering, as in the organic cohesion of similar parts; uniting.