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A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel.

The act or process of forming a channel or channels.

To make run in a channel. "Its waters were enchanneled." Sir D. Brewster.

One of a breed of cattle raised in Alderney, one of the Channel Islands. Alderneys are of a dun or tawny color and are often called Jersey cattle. See Jersey, 3.

nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

The channel of a river. Weate.

A conductor, conduit, or artificial channel for conveying water, especially one for supplying large cities with water.

Of or pertaining to a main channel (resembling an artery), as a river, canal, or railroad. Arterial blood, blood which has been changed and vitalized (arterialized) during passage through the lungs.

Hence: Any continuous or ramified channel of communication; as, arteries of trade or commerce.

Absence or closure of a natural passage or channel of the body; imperforation.

laced crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

em alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind. Hence: (Fig.) To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny. [Colloq.] -- To back out, To back down, to retreat or withdraw from a promise, engage…

by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

orm of coral reef which runs in the general direction of the shore, and incloses a lagoon channel more or less extensive. -- To fight at barriers, to fight with a barrier between, as a martial exercise. [Obs.]

The southern, red, or channel bass (Sciæna ocellata). See Redfish.

In Australia, a blind channel leading out from a river; -- sometimes called an anabranch. This is the sense of the word as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on. Totten.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.]

pid tidal flow, when not so abrupt, such as occurs at the Bay of Fundy and in the British Channel.

stones which seem to advance beyond the level of the building, by reason of indentures or channels left in the joinings. Gwilt.