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An aëroplane with two main supporting surfaces one above the other.

The brine which remains in salt works after the salt is concreted, having a bitter taste from the chloride of magnesium which it contains.

marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf. Then suddenly was heard along the main, To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope The ewe that will not hear her lamb when it baas, will never answer a calf when he bleats. Shak.

A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

The trunk, or main part, of a person or animal, as distinguished from the limbs and head; the main, central, or principal part, as of a tree, army, country, etc. Who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together Shak. The van of the king's army was led by the general; . . . in the body was the king and the pr…

To support, hold up, or maintain with difficulty or unusual effort; -- often with up. To bolster baseness. Drayton. Shoddy inventions designed to bolster up a factitious pride. Compton Reade.

money, on or before a time specified, the obligation shall be void; otherwise it shall remain in full force. If the condition is not performed, the bond becomes forfeited, and the obligor and his heirs are liable to the payment of the whole sum. Bouvier. Wharton.

traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

An arm or branch of a tree, esp. a large arm or main branch.

The interior part of anything; as, the bowels of the earth. His soldiers . . . cried out amain, And rushed into the bowels of the battle. Shak.

A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum. The little bones of the ear drum do in straining and relaxing it as the braces of the war drum do in that. Derham.

A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers. Gray.

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

r breathed, voiced, or whispered. H. Sweet. Breathed elements, being already voiceless, remain unchanged

o-masted, square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig in that she does not carry a square mainsail.

land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak.

trusion of a portion of the animal or vegetable organism, the bud thus formed sometimes remaining attached to the parent stalk or cell, at other times becoming free; gemmation. See Hydroidea.

and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oölite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.