Dovetail: alternatives and connections

A vinegar cup; socket of the hip bone; a measure of about one eighth of a pint, etc.

A hollow metallic vessel, usually shaped somewhat like a cup with a flaring mouth, containing a clapper or tongue, and giving forth a…

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat.

An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the pl…

Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.

A dog with a docked tail; formerly, the dog of a person not qualified to course, which, by the forest laws, must have its tail cut sho…

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, op…

A genus of plants (Rumex), some species of which are well-known weeds which have a long taproot and are difficult of extermination.

A European fish. See Doree, and John Doree.

A variety of the domestic pigeon, so called from the shape of the tail.

A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the tres…

In a flaring manner.

An order of ganoid fishes, including the modern gar pikes and many allied fossil forms. They have rhombic, ganoid scales, a heterocerc…

Alt. of Hastated

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue-shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed…

A small American bird (Tyrannus tyrannus, or T. Carolinensis), noted for its courage in attacking larger birds, even hawks and eagles,…

An iron dovetailed tenon, made in sections, which can be fitted into a dovetail mortise; -- used in hoisting large stones, etc.