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Four; that is, as many as are thrown into a vessel at once in counting herrings, etc; a warp.

The four of cards or dice.

d yolk placed at the center of the ovum, segmentation being either regular or unequal. Balfour.

n to try civil suits. Under the empire the court was increased to 180, and met usually in four sections.

Its head, which is in the Milky Way, is marked by a triangle formed by three stars of the fourth magnitude. See Cassiopeia.

A long whip, such as is used in the East in the infliction of punishment. Balfour.

An old Spanish dance in moderate three-four measure, like the Passacaglia, which is slower. Both are used by classical composers as themes for variations.

One of a tropical family of snakelike lizards (Chalcidæ), having four small or rudimentary legs.

A retired room, esp. an upper room used for sleeping; a bedroom; as, the house had four chambers.

An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.

Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. Four bells admit twenty-four changes in ringing. Holder. Change of life, the period in the life of a woman when menstruation and the capacity for conception cease, usually occurring between forty-five and fifty years of age. -- Cha…

A four-wheeled pleasure or state carriage, having one seat. Shak.

A light, covered, four-wheeled pleasure carriage with two seats.

The gum resin of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). Same as Churrus. Balfour.

A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.

An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat.

A Turkish pipe, usually with a mouthpiece of amber, a stem, four or five feet long and not pliant, of some valuable wood, and a bowl of baked clay.

The Indian four-horned antelope (Tetraceros quadricornis).

nearly to man, in most respects, than any other ape. When full grown, it is from three to four feet high.

A foot consisting of four syllables, of which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.