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Sesame. [Sometimes written til.] Teel oil, sesame oil.

The seed of sesame.

Hard steel, usually crucible steel, capable of being tempered so as to be suitable for tools.

A locomotive driving wheel which acts by friction adhesion to a smooth track.

A circular plate or a cross, with two or more cross grooves intersecting at the center, used on the end of a shaft to transmit motion to another shaft not in line with the first.

A wheel turned by persons or animals, by treading, climbing, or pushing with the feet, upon its periphery or face. See Treadmill.

Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley.

A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.

See Twill.

Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.

Not peeled.

To open, as the eyes of a hawk that have been seeled; hence, to give light to; to enlighten. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To disarm; to soften. Richardson.

A native attorney or agent; also, an ambassador. [India]

Any wheel for propelling machinery or for other purposes, that is made to rotate by the direct action of water; -- called an overshot wheel when the water is applied at the top, an undershot wheel when at the bottom, a breast wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turb…

Well. [Obs. or Scot.]

A kind of trap or snare for fish, made of twigs. [Obs.] Carew.

A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.

for supporting and conveying vehicles, in machinery, and for various purposes; as, the wheel of a wagon, of a locomotive, of a mill, of a watch, etc. The gasping charioteer beneath the wheel Of his own car. Dryden.

The figure inclosed by lines through the points contact of the wheels of a vehicle, etc., with the surface or rails on which they run; more esp., the length of this figure between the points of contact of the two extreme wheels on either side.