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Just hove clear of the ground; -said of the anchor.

An open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides; especially at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.

c ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.

The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.

A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.

To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis. To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction. Nichol.

hich it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.

In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.

nd of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

Any round or roundish body or mass; a sphere or globe; as, a ball of twine; a ball of snow.

An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the rest, with a bandage over her eyes. Addison.