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One of the side scenes of the stage in a theater, or the space included between the side scenes.

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

An inclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. The courts the house of our God. Ps. cxxxv. 2. And round the cool green courts there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Golds…

A box or case whose sides are of wooden slats with interspaces, -- used especially for transporting fruit.

Cube. -- Cubical parabola (Geom.), two curves of the third degree, one plane, and one on space of three dimensions.

d then returns again and again, uniformly and continually in the same order; a periodical space of time marked by the recurrence of something peculiar; as, the cucle of the seasons, or of the year. Wages . . . bear a full proportion . . . to the medium of provision during the last bad cycle of twenty years. Burke.…

Pertaining to, or resembling, a cycloid; as, the cycloidal space is the space contained between a cycloid and its base. Cycloidal engine. See Geometric lathe.

represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space between the spectator and the picture, things adapted to the scene represented, and in some places only parts of these objects, the completion of them being carried out pictorially.

The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length.

lowing from that point toward which a vessel would go. -- Dead angle (Mil.), an angle or space which can not be seen or defended from behind the parapet. -- Dead block, either of two wooden or iron blocks intended to serve instead of buffers at the end of a freight car. -- Dead calm (Naut.), no wind at all. -- Dead…

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

s of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

a triangle depend on, and are deducible from, the complex idea of three lines including a space. Locke.

A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer.

The triangular space under the beak of many brachiopod shells.

arts massed or crowded together; close; compact; thick; containing much matter in a small space; heavy; opaque; as, a dense crowd; a dense forest; a dense fog. All sorts of bodies, firm and fluid, dense and rare. Ray. To replace the cloudy barrier dense. Cowper.

A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according to the particular shape, Dewar bulb, Dewar tube, etc.

The infield; the square space, 90 feet on a side, having the bases at its angles.

nsists of the constant repetition of one or more simple figures or units of design evenly spaced.

Intervening space; interval.