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A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc. Weale.

Same as Bridoon.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

To rub or wear off; to waste or wear away by friction; as, to abrade rocks. Lyell.

A region of British America on the Atlantic coast, north of Newfoundland. Labrador duck (Zoöl.), a sea duck (Camtolaimus Labradorius) allied to the eider ducks. It was formerly common on the coast of New England, but is now supposed to be extinct, no specimens having been reported since 1878. -- Labrador feldspar. See…

of colors, and hence much used for ornamental purposes. The finest specimens come from Labrador. See Feldspar.

The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

A granular igneous rock composed almost exclusively of a soda- lime feldspar, usually labradorite.

A dwarf tree, one in size between a shrub and a tree; a treelike shrub. Bradley.

netmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

lso brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

To abrade or rub off any outer covering from; as to bark one's heel.

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

A peculiar brad-shaped spike, to be driven alongside the end of an abutting timber to prevent its slipping.

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

To strip or wear off the skin of; to abrade; to gall; to break and remove the cuticle of, in any manner, as by rubbing, beating, or by the action of acrid substances.

instrument, having cutting ridges or teeth, made by indentation with a chisel, used for abrading or smoothing other substances, as metals, wood, etc.

for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).