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re each course consists of headers and stretchers alternately, so laid as always to break joints; Cross bond, which differs from the English by the change of the second stretcher line so that its joints come in the middle of the first, and the same position of stretchers comes back every fifth line; Combined cross and…

warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint custody of the importer, or his agent, and the customs officers.

o see if it or they be level or in line, as in carpentry, masonry, and surveying. Knight. Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges. W. M. Buchanan.

An extra dividend to the shareholders of a joint stock company, out of accumulated profits.

A narrow flower bed. Border land, land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; -- often used figuratively; as, the border land of science. -- The Border, The Borders, specifically, the frontier districts of Scotland and England which lie adjacent. -- Over the border, across the boundary line or f…

advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. Gwilt.

or drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow- shaped spring, instead of by a joint.

A division of the Crinoidea, including those furnished with long jointed arms. See Crinoidea.

imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

passage, as by a bridge. Xerxes . . . over Hellespont Bridging his way, Europe with Asia joined. Milton.

n provisions or money for a specified object. (e) To produce, as income. (f) To induce to join. -- To bring off, to bear or convey away; to clear from condemnation; to cause to escape. -- To bring on. (a) To cause to begin. (b) To originate or cause to exist; as, to bring on a disease. -- To bring one on one's way,…

A pointed instrument, as a joiner's awl, a brad awl, a needle, or a small ship stick.

) Ground recently opened with the plow. -- Broken line (Geom.), the straight lines which join a number of given points taken in some specified order. -- Broken meat, fragments of meat or other food. -- Broken number, a fraction. -- Broken weather, unsettled weather.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

Quality of being brusque; roughness joined with promptness; blutness. Brit. Quar.

To join in marriage. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

tion of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier.

To join at the butt, end, or outward extremity; to terminate; to be bounded; to abut. [Written also but.] And Barnsdale there doth butt on Don's well-watered ground. Drayton.

A joint where the ends of two objects come squarely together without scrafing or chamfering; -- also called butt joint.