Search the Dictionary

game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist. Beaconsfield. "A rubber of cribbage." Dickens.

To coat or impregnate with rubber or a rubber solution or preparation, as silk.

One who drubs. Sir W. Scott.

One who, or that which, grubs; especially, a machine or tool of the nature of a grub ax, .grub hook, etc.

. See Caoutchouc.

ned from the South American euphorbiaceous tree Hevea brasiliensis, hence called the Pará rubber tree, from the Brazilian river and seaport named Pará; also, the similar product of other species of Hevea. It is usually exported in flat round cakes, and is a chief variety of commercial India rubber.

One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.

A collection of shrubs.

A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic.

An apron or cover (of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

A grove; a thicket; shrubbery; an inclosure formed by branches of trees, regularly or irregularly disposed.

rding or stopping motion by friction, as of a carriage or railway car, by the pressure of rubbers against the wheels, or of clogs or ratchets against the track or roadway, or of a pivoted lever against a wheel or drum in a machine.

A small tube of metal, wood, or India rubber, used for various purposes, esp. for injecting or withdrawing fluids. It is usually associated with a trocar. [Written also canula.]

lly when vulcanized, for many purposes in the arts and in manufactures. Also called India rubber (because it was first brought from India, and was formerly used chiefly for erasing pencil marks) and gum elastic. See Vulcanization. Mineral caoutchouc. See under Mineral.

n steeped. -- Cherry laurel (Bot.), an evergren shrub (Prunus Lauro-cerasus) common in shrubberies, the poisonous leaves of which have a flavor like that of bitter almonds. -- Cherry pepper (Bot.), a species of Capsicum (C. cerasiforme), with small, scarlet, intensely piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a)…

A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground cork and caoutchouc or India rubber.

A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

A separate thin wooden frame used to form the border of a hand mold, or a curb of India rubber or other material which rests on, and forms the edge of, the mold in a paper machine and determines the width of the paper. [Spelt also deckel, and deckle.]

springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. Capable of being drawn out by force like a piece of elastic gum, and by its own elasticity returning, when the force is removed, to its former position. Paley.

One who, or that which, erases; esp., a sharp instrument or a piece of rubber used to erase writings, drawings, etc.