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trip of leather, which serves as a joint to turn on. The gate self-opened wide, On golden hinges turning. Milton.

Furnished with hinges.

Without a hinge or joint.

See 1st Butt, 10.

To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.

The act unhinging, or the state of being unhinged.

To whine. [Scot.] Burns.

a weapon. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger. Sir W. Scott.

ng manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having to teeth at the hinge. [Written also Anodonta.]

of the subdivisions of the Brachiopoda, including those that have the shells united by a hinge.

n board , a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two "tables".

vertebrates, as in the Hemiptera. (d) The upper or projecting part of the shell, near the hinge of a bivalve. (e) The prolongation of certain univalve shells containing the canal.

consisting of two lateral plates or valves joined together by an elastic ligament at the hinge, which is usually strengthened 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.…

Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.

s entirely covered with facets on the surface, and is flat below. This snuffbox -- on the hinge see brilliants shine. Pope.

A kind of hinge used in hanging doors, etc.; -- so named because fastened on the edge of the door, which butts against the casing, instead of on its face, like the strap hinge; also called butt hinge.

ics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.

The hinge of a bivalve shell.

A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.