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ers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft.

To make, or to describe as, female or feminine. Shaftesbury.

One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.

t molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.] Challenged Cupid at the flight. Shak. Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have. Beau. & Fl.

parating two parts that are fitted tightly one into another, as for forcing a crank on a shaft, or for drawing off a car wheel from the axle. -- Forcing pump. See Force pump (b).

A fret or chafe, as in cloth; a place injured by rubbing.

by change of place where friction wears it; or to renew, as the material used to prevent chafing; as, to freshen a hawse. Totten. To freshen ballast (Naut.), to shift Or restore it. -- To freshen the hawse, to pay out a little more cable, so as to bring the chafe on another part. -- To freshen the way, to increase th…

To rub; to wear away by friction; to chafe; to gall; hence, to eat away; to gnaw; as, to fret cloth; to fret a piece of gold or other metal; a worm frets the plants of a ship. With many a curve my banks I fret. Tennyson.

Rubbed or worn away; chafed.

A device in which a piece on one shaft or pulley is so forcibly pressed against a piece on another shaft that the two will revolve together; as, in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold…

ll the sparrows and finches, but is now restricted to certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.

To rub or wear by rubbing; to chafe. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

One who frotes; one who rubs or chafes. [Obs.] Marston.

One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

on, or great trial; severe experience or discipline. Deut. iv. 20. Bustamente furnace, a shaft furnace for roasting quicksilver ores. -- Furnace bridge, Same as Bridge wall. See Bridge, n., 5. -- Furnace cadmiam or cadmia, the oxide of zinc which accumulates in the chimneys of furnaces smelting zinciferous ores. Raym…

The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

To fret and wear away by friction; to hurt or break the skin of by rubbing; to chafe; to injure the surface of by attrition; as, a saddle galls the back of a horse; to gall a mast or a cable. I am loth to gall a new-healed wound. Shak.

rict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

Fitted to gall or chafe; vexing; harassing; irritating. -- Gall"ing*ly, adv.