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Ad captandum
Ad captandum Ad cap*tan"dum [L., for catching.]
A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts
to catch or win popular favor.
Ad hominem
Ad hominem Ad hom"i*nem [L., to the man.]
A phrase applied to an appeal or argument addressed to the
principles, interests, or passions of a man.
Ad infinitum
Ad infinitum Ad in`fi*ni"tum [L., to infinity.]
Without limit; endlessly.
Ad interim
Ad interim Ad in"ter*im[L.]
Meanwhile; temporary.
Ad valorem
Ad valorem Ad va*lo"rem [L., according to the value.] (Com.)
A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at a
certain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their
invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given
quantity or number; as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per
cent.
Bad form Good form or Bad form, the general appearance, condition
or action, originally of horses, atterwards of persons;
as, the members of a boat crew are said to be in good form
when they pull together uniformly. The phrases are further
used colloquially in description of conduct or manners in
society; as, it is not good form to smoke in the presence
of a lady. Bad lands
Bad lands Bad" lands"
Barren regions, especially in the western United States,
where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often
eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by
ca[~n]ons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage
increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence
the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises
Terres (bad lands).
Ballad mongerBallad monger Bal"lad mon`ger [See Monger.]
A seller or maker of ballads; a poetaster. --Shak. Bead proof
Bead proof Bead" proof`
1. Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in
alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating
or sinking of glass globules of different specific
gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate
meters.
2. A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads
or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side
of the glass, when shaken.
bead treeMargosa Mar*go"sa, n. [Pg. amargoso bitter.] (Bot.)
A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in
India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable
oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes
from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree,
and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is
known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree.
Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic.
The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for
wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the
attacks of flies. --Sir S.
Baker. Brad awl
Brad awl Brad" awl`
A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for
brads, etc. --Weale.
bread treeBreadfruit Bread"fruit`, n. (Bot.)
1. The fruit of a tree (Artocarpus incisa) found in the
islands of the Pacific, esp. the South Sea islands. It is
of a roundish form, from four to six or seven inches in
diameter, and, when baked, somewhat resembles bread, and
is eaten as food, whence the name.
2. (Bot.) The tree itself, which is one of considerable size,
with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and
the timber is used for many purposes. Called also
breadfruit tree and bread tree. Broad arrowArrow Ar"row, n. [OE. arewe, AS. arewe, earh; akin to Icel.
["o]r, ["o]rvar, Goth. arhwazna, and perh. L. arcus bow. Cf.
Arc.]
A missile weapon of offense, slender, pointed, and usually
feathered and barbed, to be shot from a bow.
Broad arrow.
(a) An arrow with a broad head.
(b) A mark placed upon British ordnance and government
stores, which bears a rude resemblance to a broad
arrowhead. Broad Church
Broad Church Broad" Church` (Eccl.)
A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who
claim to hold a position, in respect to doctrine and
fellowship, intermediate between the High Church party and
the Low Church, or evangelical, party. The term has been
applied to other bodies of men holding liberal or
comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship.
Side by side with these various shades of High and Low
Church, another party of a different character has
always existed in the Church of England. It is called
by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad
Church, by its friends; Latitudinarian or Indifferent,
by its enemies. Its distinctive character is the desire
of comprehension. Its watch words are charity and
toleration. --Conybeare.
Broad gaugeBroad gauge Broad" gauge` (Railroad)
A wider distance between the rails than the ``standard'
gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge. Broad seal
Broad seal Broad" seal`
The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or
state.
broad tapewormTapeworm Tape"worm`, n. (Zo["o]l.)
Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to
T[ae]nia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and
composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in
shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and
longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully
developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a
mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary
greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also,
with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the
animals in which they are parasitic. The larv[ae] (see
Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and
when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop
into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration
in Appendix.
Note: Three species are common parasites of man: the pork
tapeworm (T[ae]nia solium), the larva of which is
found in pork; the beef tapeworm (T.
mediocanellata), the larva of which lives in the flesh
of young cattle; and the broad tapeworm
(Bothriocephalus latus) which is found chiefly in the
inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Europe and
Asia. See also Echinococcus, Cysticercus,
Proglottis, and 2d Measles, 4. Dead beatDead beat Dead` beat"
See Beat, n., 7. [Low, U.S.] dead centerCenter Cen"ter, n. [F. centre, fr. L. centrum, fr. round which
a circle is described, fr. ? to prick, goad.]
1. A point equally distant from the extremities of a line,
figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of
a circle; the middle point or place.
2. The middle or central portion of anything.
3. A principal or important point of concentration; the
nucleus around which things are gathered or to which they
tend; an object of attention, action, or force; as, a
center of attaction.
4. The earth. [Obs.] --Shak.
5. Those members of a legislative assembly (as in France) who
support the existing government. They sit in the middle of
the legislative chamber, opposite the presiding officer,
between the conservatives or monarchists, who sit on the
right of the speaker, and the radicals or advanced
republicans who occupy the seats on his left, See Right,
and Left.
6. (Arch.) A temporary structure upon which the materials of
a vault or arch are supported in position until the work
becomes self-supporting.
7. (Mech.)
(a) One of the two conical steel pins, in a lathe, etc.,
upon which the work is held, and about which it
revolves.
(b) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a
shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center,
on which the work can turn, as in a lathe.
Note: In a lathe the
live center is in the spindle of the head stock; the
dead center is on the tail stock.
Planer centers are stocks carrying centers, when the object
to be planed must be turned on its axis.
Center of an army, the body or troops occupying the place
in the line between the wings.
Center of a curve or surface (Geom.)
(a) A point such that every line drawn through the point
and terminated by the curve or surface is bisected at
the point.
(b) The fixed point of reference in polar co["o]rdinates.
See Co["o]rdinates.
Center of curvature of a curve (Geom.), the center of that
circle which has at any given point of the curve closer
contact with the curve than has any other circle whatever.
See Circle.
Center of a fleet, the division or column between the van
and rear, or between the weather division and the lee.
Center of gravity (Mech.), that point of a body about which
all its parts can be balanced, or which being supported,
the whole body will remain at rest, though acted upon by
gravity.
Center of gyration (Mech.), that point in a rotating body
at which the whole mass might be concentrated
(theoretically) without altering the resistance of the
intertia of the body to angular acceleration or
retardation.
Center of inertia (Mech.), the center of gravity of a body
or system of bodies.
Center of motion, the point which remains at rest, while
all the other parts of a body move round it.
Center of oscillation, the point at which, if the whole
matter of a suspended body were collected, the time of
oscillation would be the same as it is in the actual form
and state of the body.
Center of percussion, that point in a body moving about a
fixed axis at which it may strike an obstacle without
communicating a shock to the axis.
Center of pressure (Hydros.), that point in a surface
pressed by a fluid, at which, if a force equal to the
whole pressure and in the same line be applied in a
contrary direction, it will balance or counteract the
whole pressure of the fluid. Dead coloringColoring Col"or*ing, n.
1. The act of applying color to; also, that which produces
color.
2. Change of appearance as by addition of color; appearance;
show; disguise; misrepresentation.
Tell the whole story without coloring or gloss.
--Compton
Reade.
Dead coloring. See under Dead. Dead drunkDead Dead, adv.
To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely;
wholly. [Colloq.]
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. --Dickens.
Dead drunk, so drunk as to be unconscious. Dead lift 4. That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is
lifted; as:
(a) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
(b) A handle.
(c) An exercising machine.
5. A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in
canals.
6. A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. [Prov. Eng.]
7. (Naut.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity
of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end
of the yard.
8. (Mach.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
9. (Shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel.
10. (Horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance
during which the impulse is given. --Saunier.
Dead lift. See under Dead. --Swift.
Lift bridge, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of
which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside.
Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting.
Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer.
Lift lock, a canal lock.
Lift pump, a lifting pump.
Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the
speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action
of grinding machinery according to the speed.
Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the
lock. Dead nettleNettle Net"tle, n. [AS. netele; akin to D. netel, G. nessel,
OHG. nezz["i]la, nazza, Dan. nelde, n["a]lde, Sw. n["a]ssla;
cf, Lith. notere.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp
hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation.
Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U.
cham[ae]dryoides in the Southern, United States. the common
European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found
in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman
nettle of England.
Note: The term nettle has been given to many plants related
to, or to some way resembling, the true nettle; as:
Australian nettle, a stinging tree or shrub of the genus
Laportea (as L. gigas and L. moroides); -- also
called nettle tree.
Bee nettle, Hemp nettle, a species of Galeopsis. See
under Hemp.
Blind nettle, Dead nettle, a harmless species of
Lamium.
False nettle (B[ae]hmeria cylindrica), a plant common in
the United States, and related to the true nettles.
Hedge nettle, a species of Stachys. See under Hedge.
Horse nettle (Solanum Carolinense). See under Horse.
nettle tree.
(a) Same as Hackberry.
(b) See Australian nettle (above).
Spurge nettle, a stinging American herb of the Spurge
family (Jatropha urens).
Wood nettle, a plant (Laportea Canadensis) which stings
severely, and is related to the true nettles.
Nettle cloth, a kind of thick cotton stuff, japanned, and
used as a substitute for leather for various purposes.
Nettle rash (Med.), an eruptive disease resembling the
effects of whipping with nettles.
Sea nettle (Zo["o]l.), a medusa. Dead spindleSpindle Spin"dle, n. [AS. spinal, fr. spinnan to spin; akin to
D. spil, G. spille, spindel, OHG. spinnala. [root]170. See
Spin.]
1. The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by
which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted,
it is wound; also, the pin on which the bobbin is held in
a spinning machine, or in the shuttle of a loom.
2. A slender rod or pin on which anything turns; an axis; as,
the spindle of a vane. Specifically:
(a) (Mach.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine
tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which
causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or
center, etc.
(b) (Mach.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a
grinding mill turns.
(c) (Founding) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is
formed.
3. The fusee of a watch.
4. A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle.
5. A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards;
in linen yarn, 14,400 yards.
6. (Geom.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved
line about its base or double ordinate or chord.
7. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria;
-- called also spindle stromb.
(b) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus.
Dead spindle (Mach.), a spindle in a machine tool that does
not revolve; the spindle of the tailstock of a lathe.
Live spindle (Mach.), the revolving spindle of a machine
tool; the spindle of the headstock of a turning lathe.
Spindle shell. (Zo["o]l.) See Spindle, 7. above.
Spindle side, the female side in descent; in the female
line; opposed to spear side. --Ld. Lytton. [R.] ``King
Lycaon, grandson, by the spindle side, of Oceanus.'
--Lowell.
Spindle tree (Bot.), any shrub or tree of the genus
Eunymus. The wood of E. Europ[ae]us was used for
spindles and skewers. See Prickwood. dead spindleTail Tail, n. [AS. t[ae]gel, t[ae]gl; akin to G. zagel, Icel.
tagl, Sw. tagel, Goth. tagl hair. [root]59.]
1. (Zo["o]l.) The terminal, and usually flexible, posterior
appendage of an animal.
Note: The tail of mammals and reptiles contains a series of
movable vertebr[ae], and is covered with flesh and
hairs or scales like those of other parts of the body.
The tail of existing birds consists of several more or
less consolidated vertebr[ae] which supports a fanlike
group of quills to which the term tail is more
particularly applied. The tail of fishes consists of
the tapering hind portion of the body ending in a
caudal fin. The term tail is sometimes applied to the
entire abdomen of a crustacean or insect, and sometimes
to the terminal piece or pygidium alone.
2. Any long, flexible terminal appendage; whatever resembles,
in shape or position, the tail of an animal, as a catkin.
Doretus writes a great praise of the distilled
waters of those tails that hang on willow trees.
--Harvey.
3. Hence, the back, last, lower, or inferior part of
anything, -- as opposed to the head, or the superior
part.
The Lord will make thee the head, and not the tail.
--Deut.
xxviii. 13.
4. A train or company of attendants; a retinue.
``Ah,' said he, ``if you saw but the chief with his
tail on.' --Sir W.
Scott.
5. The side of a coin opposite to that which bears the head,
effigy, or date; the reverse; -- rarely used except in the
expression ``heads or tails,' employed when a coin is
thrown up for the purpose of deciding some point by its
fall.
6. (Anat.) The distal tendon of a muscle.
7. (Bot.) A downy or feathery appendage to certain achenes.
It is formed of the permanent elongated style.
8. (Surg.)
(a) A portion of an incision, at its beginning or end,
which does not go through the whole thickness of the
skin, and is more painful than a complete incision; --
called also tailing.
(b) One of the strips at the end of a bandage formed by
splitting the bandage one or more times.
9. (Naut.) A rope spliced to the strap of a block, by which
it may be lashed to anything.
10. (Mus.) The part of a note which runs perpendicularly
upward or downward from the head; the stem. --Moore
(Encyc. of Music).
11. pl. Same as Tailing, 4.
12. (Arch.) The bottom or lower portion of a member or part,
as a slate or tile.
13. pl. (Mining) See Tailing, n., 5.
Tail beam. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece.
Tail coverts (Zo["o]l.), the feathers which cover the bases
of the tail quills. They are sometimes much longer than
the quills, and form elegant plumes. Those above the
quills are called the upper tail coverts, and those
below, the under tail coverts.
Tail end, the latter end; the termination; as, the tail end
of a contest. [Colloq.]
Tail joist. (Arch.) Same as Tailpiece.
Tail of a comet (Astron.), a luminous train extending from
the nucleus or body, often to a great distance, and
usually in a direction opposite to the sun.
Tail of a gale (Naut.), the latter part of it, when the
wind has greatly abated. --Totten.
Tail of a lock (on a canal), the lower end, or entrance
into the lower pond.
Tail of the trenches (Fort.), the post where the besiegers
begin to break ground, and cover themselves from the fire
of the place, in advancing the lines of approach.
Tail spindle, the spindle of the tailstock of a turning
lathe; -- called also dead spindle.
To turn tail, to run away; to flee.
Would she turn tail to the heron, and fly quite out
another way; but all was to return in a higher
pitch. --Sir P.
Sidney. Drumhead court-martialDrumhead Drum"head`, n.
1. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum.
2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for
levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan.
Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial
called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of
march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a
writing table. Flathead IndiansChinook Chi*nook", n.
1. (Ethnol.) One of a tribe of North American Indians now
living in the state of Washington, noted for the custom of
flattening their skulls. Chinooks also called Flathead
Indians.
2. A warm westerly wind from the country of the Chinooks,
sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains,
in Montana and the adjacent territory.
3. A jargon of words from various languages (the largest
proportion of which is from that of the Chinooks)
generally understood by all the Indian tribes of the
northwestern territories of the United States. Gingerbread plum Note: Two or three hundred varieties of plums derived from
the Prunus domestica are described; among them the
greengage, the Orleans, the purple gage, or
Reine Claude Violette, and the German prune, are
some of the best known.
Note: Among the true plums are;
Beach plum, the Prunus maritima, and its crimson or
purple globular drupes,
Bullace plum. See Bullace.
Chickasaw plum, the American Prunus Chicasa, and its
round red drupes.
Orleans plum, a dark reddish purple plum of medium size,
much grown in England for sale in the markets.
Wild plum of America, Prunus Americana, with red or
yellow fruit, the original of the Iowa plum and several
other varieties. Among plants called plum, but of other
genera than Prunus, are;
Australian plum, Cargillia arborea and C. australis, of
the same family with the persimmon.
Blood plum, the West African H[ae]matostaphes Barteri.
Cocoa plum, the Spanish nectarine. See under Nectarine.
Date plum. See under Date.
Gingerbread plum, the West African Parinarium
macrophyllum.
Gopher plum, the Ogeechee lime.
Gray plum, Guinea plum. See under Guinea.
Indian plum, several species of Flacourtia.
2. A grape dried in the sun; a raisin.
3. A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant
language, the sum of [pounds]100,000 sterling; also, the
person possessing it.
Plum bird, Plum budder (Zo["o]l.), the European
bullfinch.
Plum gouger (Zo["o]l.), a weevil, or curculio (Coccotorus
scutellaris), which destroys plums. It makes round holes
in the pulp, for the reception of its eggs. The larva
bores into the stone and eats the kernel.
Plum weevil (Zo["o]l.), an American weevil which is very
destructive to plums, nectarines cherries, and many other
stone fruits. It lays its eggs in crescent-shaped
incisions made with its jaws. The larva lives upon the
pulp around the stone. Called also turk, and plum
curculio. See Illust. under Curculio. Gingerbread tree Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from
the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom
Palm.
Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or
decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character. Gingerbread work Gingerbread tree (Bot.), the doom palm; -- so called from
the resemblance of its fruit to gingerbread. See Doom
Palm.
Gingerbread work, ornamentation, in architecture or
decoration, of a fantastic, trivial, or tawdry character.
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