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r of fresh-water Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma.

Shaped like a horseshoe.

A short, sharp-pointed, large-headed nail, -- used in shoeing houses and for studding the soles of heavy shoes.

See with hobnails, as a shoe.

See Hoemother.

us Hippocrepis (H. comosa), cultivated for the beauty of its flowers; -- called also horsehoe vetch, from the peculiar shape of its pods. -- Iron horse, a locomotive. [Colloq.] -- Salt horse, the sailor's name for salt beef. -- To look a gift horse in the mouth, to examine the mouth of a horse which has been received…

The Limulus or horseshoe crab.

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

An adz; a hoe. [Obs.] Bp. Stillingfleet.

[Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

urative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.

I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in di…

ut by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant.

The Waldenses; -- so called from their peculiary cut or marked sabots, or shoes.

The inside sole of a boot or shoe; also, a loose, thin strip of leather, felt, etc., placed

To give a glossy black to, as shoes. [R.] Gay.

r jealousy. Zech. viii. 2. Jealousy is the . . . apprehension of superiority. Shenstone. Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealousy, had excellence to deserve our fondness. Rambler.

period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician source, the ultimate origin probably being Egyptian,. Etymologically K is most nearly related to c, g, h (which see).

e . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak.

value are from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being from the Phoenician, and the ultimate origin prob. Egyptian. Etymologically, it is most closely related to r and u; as in pilgrim, peregrine, couch (fr. collocare), aubura (fr. LL. alburnus).