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ing rounded buttonlike heads of flowers. (b) An American umbelliferous plant with rigid, narrow leaves, and flowers in dense heads. -- Button tree (Bot.), a genus of trees (Conocarpus), furnishing durable timber, mostly natives of the West Indies. -- To hold by the button, to detain in conversation to weariness; to b…

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

e caisson to each piece, having two ammunition boxes on the body, and one on the limber. Farrow.

naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden.

expose adjacent parts of the plate successively to the light, which reaches it through a narrow vertical slit; -- used in photographing broad landscapes. Abney.

A plant having long hard, crooked roots, the Ononis spinosa; -- called also rest-harrow. The Scandix Pecten-Veneris is also called cammock.

side of an enemy's gallery, to blow in the earth and cut off the retreat of the miners. Farrow.

camp (Mil.), a camp or body of troops formed for rapid motion from one place to another. Farrow. -- To pitch (a) camp, to set up the tents or huts of a camp. -- To strike camp, to take down the tents or huts of a camp.

A small cañon; a narrow valley or glen; also, but less frequently, an open valley. [Local, Western U. S.]

gnaling. It is filled with a composition which makes a brilliant light when it explodes. Farrow.

A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest.

dier. -- Legal cap, a kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge." -- To set one's cap, to make a fool of one. (Obs.) Chaucer. -- To set one's cap for, to try to win the favor of a man with a view to marriage. [Colloq.]…

To quality. [R.] The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow.

The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

See Quarrel, an arrow.

A strong vessel with a narrow stern, projecting quarters, and deep waist. It is employed in the coal and timber trade.

resembling a massive crossbow, used by the ancient Greeks and Romans for throwing stones, arrows, spears, etc.

o provide food; to buy, procure, or prepare provisions. [He] providently caters for the sparrow. Shak.

Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

A hollow way, adapted to cover troops, and facilitate their aproach to a place. Farrow.