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A repository for holding things; a hinding place.

es called the anterior condylar foramen when a second, or posterior, foramen is present behind the condyle, as often happens in man.

That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. "Speak without control." Dryden.

An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.

order, pedestal, door, window, or house. Gwilt. Cornice ring, the ring on a cannon next behind the muzzle ring.

A Hindoo measure of distance, varying from one and a half to two English miles. Whitworth.

To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. [They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.

A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure. Knolles.

That which confines or contracts; a restraint; a shakle; a hindrance. A narrow fortune is a cramp to a great mind. L'Estrange. Crippling his pleasures with the cramp of fear. Cowper.

im. R. B. Kimball. Crazy bone, the bony projection at the end of the elbow (olecranon), behind which passes the ulnar nerve; -- so called on account of the curiously painful tingling felt, when, in a particular position, it receives a blow; -- called also funny bone. -- Crazy quilt, a bedquilt made of pieces of silk o…

An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer.

split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent. The mouse, Behind the moldering wainscot, shrieked, Or from the crevice peered about. Tennyson.

small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

ome up to the place where the lions were, the boys that went before were glad to cringe behind, for they were afraid of the lions. Bunyan. Sly hypocrite, . . . who more than thou Once fawned and cringed, and servilely adored Heaven's awful monarch Milton. Flatterers . . . are always bowing and cringing. Arbuthnot.…

With opposition or hindrance; at cross purposes; contrarily; as, things go crisscross.

To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with. In each thing give him way; cross him in nothing. Shak. An oyster may be crossed onlove. Sheridan.

The hinder part or buttocks of certain quadrupeds, especially of a horse; hence, the place behind the saddle. So light to the croup the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung. Sir W. Scott.

A leap in which the horse pulls up his hind legs toward his belly.

Imperial or regal power or dominion; sovereignty. There is a power behind the crown greater than the crown itself. Junius.