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To stratch, as cloth, for the purpose of raising a nap; teasel.

ead covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth.

One who uses teasels for raising a nap on cloth. [Written also teaseller, teasler.]

t or suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] Pope. -- To tip up, to turn partly over by raising one end.

The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.

A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.

To fortify by cutting a ditch, and raising a rampart or breastwork with the earth thrown out of the ditch; to intrench. Pope. No more shall trenching war channel her fields. Shak.

A machine with three pulleys which act together for raising great weights. Brande & C.

k system. Garden truck, vegetables raised for market. [Colloq.] [U. S.] -- Truck farming, raising vegetables for market: market gardening. [Colloq. U. S.]

s when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.

Designating a method of shaft excavation by drifting to a point below, and then raising instead of sinking.

A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like.

system is in equilibrium, of the two opposed interactions the endothermic is promoted by raising the temperature, the exothermic by lowering it.

The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters.

A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

A wheel for raising water; a noria, or the like.

v. t. -- Ways and means. (a) Methods; resources; facilities. (b) (Legislation) Means for raising money; resources for revenue. -- Way leave, permission to cross, or a right of way across, land; also, rent paid for such right. [Eng] -- Way of the cross (Eccl.), the course taken in visiting in rotation the stations of…

ne end, and tapering to a thin edge at the other, used in splitting wood, rocks, etc., in raising heavy bodies, and the like. It is one of the six elementary machines called the mechanical powers. See Illust. of Mechanical powers, under Mechanical.

ntary machines or mechanical powers, consisting of a wheel fixed to an axle, and used for raising great weights, by applying the power to the circumference of the wheel, and attaching the weight, by a rope or chain, to that of the axle. Called also axis in peritrochio, and perpetual lever, -- the principle of equilibri…

A large capstan or vertical drum turned by horse power or steam power, for raising ore or water, etc., from mines, or for other purposes; -- called also whim gin, and whimsey. Whim gin (Mining), a whim. See Whim, 2. -- Whim shaft (Mining), a shaft through which ore, water, etc., is raised from a mine by means of a whi…