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d even higher; - - so named from its resemblance in shape to the utensil above described. Mortar bed (Mil.), a framework of wood and iron, suitably hollowed out to receive the breech and trunnions of a mortar. -- Mortar boat or vessel (Naut.), a boat strongly built and adapted to carrying a mortar or mortars for bomba…

The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt.

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.

Any place where cannon or mortars are mounted, for attack or defense.

See Gun carriage, and Mortar bed.

A shell; esp. a spherical shell, like those fired from mortars. See Shell.

A wooden vessel for the mortar used in tiling or masonry, hung by a hook from the laths, or from the rounds of a ladder. Gwilt.

To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine. Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar, . . . yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Prov. xxvii. 22.

The art of building with bricks, or of uniting them by cement or mortar into various forms; the act or occupation of laying bricks.

ne in the form of a brick, used for paving; also, a molded sample of solidified cement or mortar for use as a test piece for showing the strength of the material.

A smooth coat of brown mortar, usually the second coat, and the preparation for the finishing coat of plaster.

To break; as in a mortar; to bray, as minerals, roots, etc.; to crush. Nor bruise her flowerets with the armed hoofs. Shak.

A hollow case or shell, filled with combustibles, to be thrown from a mortar or howitzer, to set fire to buldings, ships, etc. A discharge of carcasses and bombshells. W. Iving.

To have propulsive power; to propel; as, a gun or mortar carries well.

Any substance used for making bodies adhere to each other, as mortar, glue, etc.

A machine for raising guns or mortar into their carriages.

Quicklime; also, plaster or mortar. [India] Whitworth.

A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

A mortar made of sand and cement.