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The office of a spiritual overseer, as of an apostle, bishop, or presbyter. Acts i. 20.

engthened by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

.), a tire without a flange. -- Blank tooling. See Blind tooling, under Blind. -- Blank verse. See under Verse. -- Blank wall, a wall in which there is no opening; a dead wall.

d wire, usually containing a core of soft iron which becomes magnetic when the wire is traversed by an electrical current. Bobbin and fly frame, a roving machine. -- Bobbin lace, lace made on a pillow with bobbins; pillow lace.

A transverse bar above the axle of a wagon, on which the bed or body rests.

Versed in books; having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

y. Boom iron, one of the iron rings on the yards through which the studding-sail booms traverse. -- The booms, that space on the upper deck of a ship between the foremast and mainmast, where the boats, spare spars, etc., are stowed. Totten.

person or thing which causes ennui. It is as great a bore as to hear a poet read his own verses. Hawthorne.

One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.

Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered.

The distance traversed by an arrow shot from a bow.

act as a tie, or as a strut, and serves to prevent distortion of the structure, and transverse strains in its members. A boiler brace is a diagonal stay, connecting the head with the shell.

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

A young salmon or parr, in the stage in which it has transverse black bands, as if burned by a gridiron.

The front transverse beam of a locomotive.

elow. Breathing place. (a) A pause. "That cæsura, or breathing place, in the midst of the verse." Sir P. Sidney. (b) A vent. -- Breathing time, pause; relaxation. Bp. Hall. -- Breathing while, time sufficient for drawing breath; a short time. Shak. -- Rough breathing (spiritus asper) (. See 2d Asper, n. -- Smooth b…

civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.

ddenly to windward, so as to lay the sails aback, and expose the vessel to the danger of oversetting.

One versed in the science of foods.

One versed in bryology.