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, had deposited their slime for ages among the dunes or sand banks heaved up by the ocean around their mouths. Motley.

wo edges making a corner. -- Edge mill, a crushing or grinding mill in which stones roll around on their edges, on a level circular bed; -- used for ore, and as an oil mill. Called also Chilian mill. -- Edge molding (Arch.), a molding whose section is made up of two curves meeting in an angle. -- Edge plane. (a) (Ca…

The act of inclosing in a capsule; the growth of a membrane around (any part) so as to inclose it in a capsule.

he Crinoidea which includes most of the living and many fossil forms, having jointed arms around the margin of the oral disk; -- also called Brachiata and Articulata. See Illusts. under Comatula and Crinoidea.

Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on the inner side; -- said of certain birds.

About; around. [Obs.] Lord Godfrey's eye three times environ goes. Fairfax.

dorsal side of the notochord, as distinguished from a perichordal column, which develops around it.

evel wheels, or belt pulleys, in which an arm, carrying one or more of the wheels, sweeps around a center lying in an axis common to the other wheels.

tened in the periphery of a gear wheel will describe a straight line when the wheel rolls around inside a fixed internal gear of twice its diameter.

A circle around whose circumference a planet or the center of ann epicycle was conceived to move uniformly; -- called also eccentric equator.

A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole.

anciful speculations on spiritual essences, until . . . he had and ideal world of his own around him. W. Irving.

e eye, in abundance. [Obs.] Marlowe. -- Elliott eye (Naut.), a loop in a hemp cable made around a thimble and served. -- Eye agate, a kind of circle agate, the central part of which are of deeper tints than the rest of the mass. Brande & C. -- Eye animalcule (Zoöl), a flagellate infusorian belonging to Euglena and r…

vidence; to imagine (something which is unreal). He fancied he was welcome, because those arounde him were his kinsmen. Thackeray.

ding to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.

The thin, new growth around the edge of a shell, of an oyster.

The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

heel, revolvable on its stationary axle, and carrying a number of balanced passenger cars around its rim; -- so called after G. W. G. Ferris, American engineer, who erected the first of its kind for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

(Naut.) (a) A rail about the mast, at the deck, to hold belaying pins, etc. (b) A railing around the break of a poop deck.

end down, as flexible bodies; to be loose, yielding, limp. As loose it [the sail] flagged around the mast. T. Moore.