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elevation. The direction is given when the plane of sight passes through the object. Wilhelm.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers,-Wilhelm.

To deprive of leaves. [R.] The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation. I . . . can not think of such a battle without dismay. Macaulay. Thou with a tiger spring dost leap upon thy prey, And tear his helpless breast, o'erwhelmed with wild dismay. Mrs. Barbauld.…

charters, we are to consider as well the donors and granters as the donees or grantees. Spelman.

To overwhelm in water; to submerge; to inundate. "They drown the land." Dryden.

joining the ends of the fellies which form the circle of the wheel of a gun carriage. Wilhelm.

e's ear, to be listened to with favor. -- Up to the ears, deeply submerged; almost overwhelmed; as, to be in trouble up to one's ears. [Colloq.]

o ease away (Naut.), to slacken a rope gradually. -- To ease a ship (Naut.), to put the helm hard, or regulate the sail, to prevent pitching when closehauled. -- To ease the helm (Naut.), to put the helm more nearly amidships, to lessen the effect on the ship, or the strain on the wheel rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc.…

roundworms, etc., most of which live parasitically in the interior of other animals; the Helminthes.

t or of a small rampart. It is sometimes raised in the ditch and sometimes beyond it. Wilhelm.

, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion. All Paris was quiet . . . to gather fresh strength for the next day's eruption. W. Irving.

nded and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners. Wilhelm.

side (Fort.), the side of the polygon upon which a front of fortification is formed. Wilhelm.

manors, in order to manure them; -- often reserved to himself by the lord of the manor. Spelman.

To perceive; to observe. [Obs.] Chaucer. To feel the helm (Naut.), to obey it.

A writer on feuds; a person versed in feudal law. Spelman.

An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material. [R.] Elmes.

Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power. Spelman. Fiducial edge (Astron. & Surv.), the straight edge of the alidade or ruler along which a straight line is to be drawn. -- Fiducial line or point (Math. & Physics.), a line or point of reference, as for setting a graduated circle or scale used for me…