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A fabric resembling velvet, but having the nap flat and less close.

A kind of rustic saddle. Tusser.

Treated, or coated, with varnish in the Japanese manner. Japanned leather,leather treated with coatings of Japan varnish, and dried in a stove. Knight.

One who varnishes in the manner of the Japanese, or one skilled in the art.

One who, or that which, spans.

One who trapans, or insnares.

One who trepans. " Pitiful trepanners and impostors." Gauden.

To take the saddle off; to unsaddle. [Obs.] Jervas.

upported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc., or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.

h on piers which they overhang, thus forming cantalevers which meet over the space to be spanned or sustain a third portion, to complete the connection.

f suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.

pling, coupling with interlocking parts for uniting hose, end to end. -- Hose wrench, a spanner for turning hose couplings, to unite or disconnect them.

After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles. Carlyle.

intsbury. -- Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin. -- Monkey wrench, a wrench or spanner having a movable jaw.

To yield gold in, or as in, the process of panning; -- usually with out; as, the gravel panned out richly.

-- Screw jack. Same as Jackscrew. -- Screw key, a wrench for turming a screw or nut; a spanner wrench. -- Screw machine. (a) One of a series of machines employed in the manufacture of wood screws. (b) A machine tool resembling a lathe, having a number of cutting tools that can be caused to act on the work successive…

sing the object; as, to span a space or distance; to span a cylinder. My right hand hath spanned the heavens. Isa. xiviii. 13.

Incapable of being spanned.

To insnare; to catch by stratagem; to entrap; to trepan. Having some of his people trapanned at Baldivia. Anson.

To insnare; to trap; to trapan. Guards even of a dozen men were silently trepanned from their stations. De Quincey.