the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc.
·noun The thoughts, or series of thoughts, or imaginary transactions, which occupy the mind during s...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
God has frequently made use of dreams in communicating his will to men. The most remarkable instance...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Those cut through the fore-part of the knee of the head, between the cheeks, for the admission of th...
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...
, are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round ho...
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...
Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...
The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...
or œillet. The holes in sails for points and rope-bands which are fenced round by stitching the ed...
Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears. ...
Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also...
Holes made for marling, or lacing the foot-rope and clues in courses and top-sails. ...
The apertures in the deck-partners for stepping the masts. ...
The eyelet-holes for the points. ...
See ports ...
Adaptations at the ends of the water-passages between the flues of a steamer's boilers, by which the...