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ower; -- a term of subtraction when the figure of the subtrahend is larger than the corresponding one of the minuend.

ish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.

To give birth to; to be the native place of; as, a pond breeds fish; a northern country breeds stout men.

in cold water, formed by heating dry starch at a temperature of about 600° Fahr. It corresponds, in its properties, to dextrin, and is used, in solution, as a substitute for gum in stiffering goods. -- British lion, the national emblem of Great Britain. -- British seas, the four seas which surround Great Britain.…

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.

To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency. Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title. Burke.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

let in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.

nce, or other matter of description in a survey or grant reguiring or calling for a carresponding object, etc., on the land.

A highly ornamented stand of marble or other ponderous material, usually having three feet, -- frequently a votive offering to a temple.

ually, the third tooth from the front on each side of each jaw; an eyetooth, or the corresponding tooth in the lower jaw.

bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.

To turn (the balance or scale); to overbalance; hence, to make preponderate; to decide; as, a casting voice. How much interest casts the balance in cases dubious! South.

s, or objectionable from, as the obscene parts of a writing; to expurgate. My . . . correspondent . . . has sent me the following letter, which I have castrated in some places. Spectator.

Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.

Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair; as, the cheeks (jaws) of a vise; the cheeks of a gun carriage, etc.

Pleasing correspondence of proportion, relation, or sound. "Chimes of verse." Cowley.

A verse having an iambus in the fifth place, and a spondee in the sixth or last.

A circle; anything circular. His ponderous shield . . . Behind him cast. The broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon. Milton.

A small inclosed pond used for gathering and greening oysters.