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A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

Applied to coarse cloth made of undyed wool, formerly worn by Scotch peasants. [Scot.]

See Dun crow, under Dun, a.

An awkward or foolish person. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A mixed mass; a medley. See Hotchpot. Johnson.

by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.

Of this day; belonging to the present day. [R.] Boyle. Quart. Rev.

A man who carries a hod; a mason's tender.

See Dodman. Bacon.

A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

See Odometer.

One without method; a quack. [Obs.]

The inflorescence of a compound flower in which many florets are gathered into a involucrate head.

The part of a vacuum tube opposite the cathode. Upon it the cathode rays impinge.

A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

A method of attaining successively lower temperatures by utilizing the cooling effect of the expansion of one gas in condensing another less easily liquefiable, and so on.

urrent passes out of the electrolyte; the negative pole; -- opposed to anode. Faraday. Cathode ray (Phys.), a kind of ray generated at the cathode in a vacuum tube, by the electrical discharge.

A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent course of the nervous infuence. Marshall Hall.

A picture produced by the Röntgen rays; a radiograph.

the old imp. of chide. See Chide.