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Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. [U. S.]

To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock.

That which makes the eyes open, as startling news or occurrence, or (U. S. Slang), a drink of liquor, esp. the first one in the morning.

An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

The rope rigged below a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling; -- formerly called a horse.

guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

See Gantlet. [Obs.]

An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house.

An instrument for viewing or examining the interior of the stomach.

A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.

See Graphoscope.

An optical instrument for magnifying engravings, photographs, etc., usually having one large lens and two smaller ones.

See Grouper.

n darkness or obscurity; to feel one's way, as with the hands, when one can not see. We grope for the wall like the blind. Is. lix. 10. To grope a little longer among the miseries and sensualities ot a worldly life. Buckminster.

One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling.

A guess warp.

The line by which a boat makes fast to the swinging boom. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A rope hung from a balloon or dirigible so as trail along the ground for about half its length, used to preserve altitude automatically, by variation of the length dragging on the ground, without loss of ballast or gas.