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A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.

The martin.

A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.

The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.

ing stake; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.

The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; -- often called martlemans. Martinmas summer, a period of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.

An imperfect female calf, twinborn with a male.

See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.

See Open-hearth steel, under Open.

Age; antiquity. [Obs.] Martin.

Extemporary; offhand. [R.] Dean Martin.

oöl.), a minute, wingless, dipterous insect (Braula cæca) parasitic on hive bees. -- Bee martin (Zoöl.), the kingbird (Tyrannus Carolinensis) which occasionally feeds on bees. -- Bee moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Galleria cereana) whose larvæ feed on honeycomb, occasioning great damage in beehives. -- Bee wolf (Zoöl.), the…

To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or appearances. When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so little the figure of a man that it bespoke him rather a monster. Locke.

To cause sharp pain, or smarting, to; to hurt or injure, in a literal or a figurative sense; as, pepper bites the mouth. "Frosts do bite the meads." Shak.

Having surrendered the effects; as, a cessionary bankrupt. Martin.

Love; choice. [Obs.] T. Martin.

already existing chemical compounds into simpler ones, sometimes called disassimilation. Martin.

An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. Martin's office is now the second door in the street. Arbuthnot. Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc. -- In doors, or Within doors, within the house. -- Next door to, near to; bordering on. A riot unpunis…

past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. The vowel is produced by phonetic, not by dynamic, causes. J. Peile.

. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.