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e Chinese (Mandarin) name, used generally in early works of travel, and now for a kind of rolled tea used in Central Asia.

ive distinct organs included in the full organ, each separable from the rest, but all controlled by one performer; a portion of the full organ, complete in itself, and more practicable for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating…

A word coined by Lewis Carroll (Charles L. Dodgson), and usually explained as a combination of chuckle and snort. [Humorous]

volving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.

A small roll of tobacco, used for smoking. Cigar fish (Zoöl.), a fish (Decapterus punctatus), allied to the mackerel, found on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

A little cigar; a little fine tobacco rolled in paper for smoking.

Rolled together downward, the tip occupying the center; -- a term used in reference to foliation or leafing, as in ferns. Gray.

A mean or inferior poet, perhaps from his habit of wandering around as a stroller; an itinerant poet. Also, a name given to the cyclic poets. See under Cyclic, a. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

hat which encircles, as a ring, a bracelet, or a headband. Her fair locks in circlet be enrolled. Spenser.

To roll or turn round; to cause to perform a rotary or circular motion. Ray.

The act of turning, rolling, or whirling round. A certain turbulent and irregular circumgyration. Holland.

turning, rolling, or whirling round.

The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round. J. Gregory.

The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.

To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion. Herrick.

A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. The roll of cannon and clash of arms. Tennyson.

Clear or net profit. Trollope.

An apparatus used in controlling certain kinds of aëroplanes, and consisting principally of a steering column mounted with a universal joint at the base, which is bellshaped and has attached to it the cables for controlling the wing-warping devices, elevator planes, and the like.

To put a collar on. To collar beef (or other meat), to roll it up, and bind it close with a string preparatory to cooking it.

Rolled up and bound close with a string; as, collared beef. See To collar beef, under Collar, v. t.