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The district to which a constable's power is limited. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

A female of noble rank; a peeress.

Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.

Ware, or articles collectively, for table use.

Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbs somewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conical receptacles.

Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

An elevated cableway.

The roughest and cheapest sort of rubblework, in masonry.

to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. "The enemy's magazines blew up." Tatler.

gularly preceded by a hot wind from the north; -- now usually called southerly buster. It blew across the Brickfields, formerly so called, a district of Sydney, and carried clouds of dust into the city.

Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

liant glass, consisting essentially of a silicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and for optical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree of dispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica was obtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf. Glass.…

is essentially identical with the Chinese alloy packfong. It was formerly much used for tableware, knife handles, frames, cases, bearings of machinery, etc., but is now largely superseded by other white alloys. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. -- German text…

employed in building walls, in which the stones were not squared nor laid in courses; rubblework.

ttle bell, or as coins shaken together; to tinkle. The bells she jingled, and the whistle blew. Pope.

Abatement; also, cessation; as, it blew a gale for three days without any let-up. [Colloq.]

Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman.

rostrate; flat; esp., lying with the face down; -- opposed to supine. Which, as the wind, Blew where it listed, laying all things prone. Byron.

A kind of rubblework. In the United States, any rubblework of thin and small stones.