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A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornlende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.

cal or spherical gelatinous envelope in which nauseous or acrid doses are inclosed to be swallowed.

ndia trade; a galleon. [Spelt also carrack.] The bigger whale like some huge carrack law. Waller.

e bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess. Tennyson. He saw the lean dogs beneath the wall Hold o'er the dead their carnival Byron.

A thick stout paper for inclosing cartridges. (b) A rough tinted paper used for covering walls, and also for making drawings upon.

Fortified; turreted; as, castled walls.

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

n-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

The part inclosed within the walls of an ancient temple, as distinguished from the open porticoes.

ored; blue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

A groove, or channel, as in the face of a wall; a trench, as for the reception of drain tile.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

A wall that lines the face of a bank or earthwork.

re or sheet metal placed at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof. -- Chimney swallow. (Zoöl.) (a) An American swift (Chæture pelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the common swallow (Hirundo rustica). -- Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot; esp. a boy who climbs th…

The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.

left, rent, or fissure, of greater length than breadth; a gap or crack; as, the chinks of wall. Through one cloudless chink, in a black, stormy sky. Shines out the dewy morning star. Macaulay.

ute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhibit phototactic movements. In animals chloroplasts occur only in certain low forms.…

for ordinary service and in the accompanying of the vocal choir. -- Choir screen, Choir wall (Arch.), a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles. -- Choir service, the service of singing performed by the choir. T. Warton.