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661 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ANNULATED.1 (Noah Webster)
ANNULATED, a. Furnished with rings, or circles, like rings; having belts.
662 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ANNULET.1 (Noah Webster)
ANNULET, n. [L. annulus, a ring.]
663 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ANNULET.3 (Noah Webster)
… and ring. It denotes also strength and eternity, by its circular form. Among the Romans, it represented liberty and distinction of rank. It denotes also difference …
664 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APOPHYGE.2 (Noah Webster)
… a ring or ferrel to bind the extremities of columns, and keep them from splitting; afterwards imitated in stone pillars. It is sometimes called the spring …
665 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APOPHYGE.3 (Noah Webster)
2. A concave part or ring of a column, lying above or below the flat member.
666 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. APSIS.3 (Noah Webster)
2. Apsis or absis is the arched roof of a house, room or oven; also the ring or compass of a wheel.
667 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ARMILLARY.2 (Noah Webster)
… , or ring; consisting of rings or circles. It is chiefly applied to an aritificial sphere, composed of a number of circles of the mundane sphere, put together …
668 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. ASTRAGAL.2 (Noah Webster)
… a ring; representing a ring or band of iron, to prevent the splitting of the column. it is often cut into beads or berries, and is used in ornamented entablatures …
669 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BAYONET.1 (Noah Webster)
… and ring which go over the muzzle of the piece, so that the soldier fires with his bayonet fixed.
670 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELFRY.2 (Noah Webster)
… , by ringing a bell.
671 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELL.2 (Noah Webster)
… to ring a bell, at each sentinel-box, to see that the soldier on duty was awake. Bells were also put on the necks of criminals, to warn persons to move out of the way …
672 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELL-MAN.1 (Noah Webster)
BELL-MAN, n. [bell man.] A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets.
673 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELL-RINGER.1 (Noah Webster)
BELL-RINGER, n. One whose business is to ring a church or other bell.
674 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BELT.5 (Noah Webster)
4. In astronomy, certain girdles or rings, which surround the planet Jupiter, are called belts.
675 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEND.10 (Noah Webster)
8. In seamanship, to fasten, as one rope to another or to an anchor; to fasten, as a sail to its yard or stay; to fasten, as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
676 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BEZEL.1 (Noah Webster)
BEZEL, n. The upper part of the collet of a ring, which encompasses and fastens the stone.
677 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BILANDER.1 (Noah Webster)
… a ring-bolt in the deck, and the aftermost or sheet, to the tafferel. Few vessels are now rigged in this manner.
678 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOB.6 (Noah Webster)
4. A mode of ringing.
679 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOLT.3 (Noah Webster)
… -bolts, ring-bolts, chain-bolts, etc. In gunnery, there are prise-bolts, transom-bolts, traverse-bolts, and bracket-bolts.
680 Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary, p. BOX.3 (Noah Webster)
1. The quantity that a box contains; as a box of quicksilver; a box or rings. In some cases, the quantity called a box is fixed by custom; in others, it is uncertain, as a box of tea or sugar.