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he surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.

The floor of a glass-furnace.

The floor of a gallery or passage in a mine.

material for skirts. Skirting board, the board running around a room on the wall next the floor; baseboard.

e of the joists, or roughly shaped timbers, laid directly upon the ground, to receive the flooring of the ground story. [U.S.]

Water or other liquid carelessly spilled or thrown aboyt, as upon a table or a floor; a puddle; a soiled spot.

inciple. Locke. Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. -- Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which the clapper strikes, being the part which is most efficacious in producing the sound. See Illust. of Bell.…

like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.

ll drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.

A floor or story of a house. [Obs.] Wyclif.

ore or less resembling an inverted stalactite, formed by calcareous water dropping on the floors of caverns; hence, a similar deposit of other material.

To bring down (the foot) forcibly on the ground or floor; as, he stamped his foot with rage.

A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.

An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. [Eng.] Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.

uped. This kind of deposit is especially common with tin ore. Such deposits are worked in floors or stories.

A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered architecturally, which need not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also storey.]

Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C.

separable into parts or particles; as, to strew seed in beds; to strew sand on or over a floor; to strew flowers over a grave. And strewed his mangled limbs about the field. Dryden. On a principal table a desk was open and many papers [were] strewn about. Beaconsfield.

A long horizontal timber to connect uprights in a frame, or to support a floor or the like.

Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground. It is a magnificent strong building, with a substruction very remarkable. Evelyn.