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One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

The carved work under the quarter piece at the aft part of the quarter gallery. [Written also eiking.]

an elaborate performance; elaborate research. Drawn to the life in each elaborate page. Waller.

rson who purchases such quantities of articles in a market as to raise the price; a forestaller. Locke.

Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol. The ensigns of our power about we bear. Waller.

A work in which the contents of a former work are reduced within a smaller space by curtailment and condensation; a brief summary; an abridgement. [An] epitome of the contents of a very large book. Sydney Smith.

ake an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin.

bs.] It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart. Waller. Equalizing bar (Railroad Mach.), a lever connecting two axle boxes, or two springs in a car truck or locomotive, to equalize the pressure on the axles.

orrode; as, canker erodes the flesh. "The blood . . . erodes the vessels." Wiseman. The smaller charge is more apt to . . . erode the gun. Am. Cyc.

A gallery in a church, where persons watched all night.

at is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.

Capacity of a concept or general term to include a greater or smaller number of objects; -- correlative of intension. The law is that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio of its extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more obj…

One of the smaller cannon used in the 15th century and later.

A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.

on their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.

f the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fennel, (Fæniculum dulce). It is a smaller and stouter plant than the common fennel, and is used as a pot herb. -- Dog's fennel (Anthemis Cotula), a foul-smelling European weed; -- called also mayweed. -- Fennel flower (Bot.), an herb (Nigella) of the Buttercup fam…

Heat; excessive warmth. The fevor of ensuing day. Waller.

The outer and usually the smaller of the two bones of the leg, or hind limb, below the knee.

Any scantling smaller than a batten.

Filter bed, a pond, the bottom of which is a filter composed of sand gravel. -- Filter gallery, an underground gallery or tunnel, alongside of a stream, to collect the water that filters through the intervening sand and gravel; -- called also infiltration gallery.