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121egg and dart — Archit. a design for enriching an ovolo or echinus, consisting of a closely set, alternating series of oval and pointed forms. [1870 75] * * * ▪ architecture in architecture, design shape used in moldings. It consists of a series of bas… …
122fine-tooth comb — /fuyn toohth / 1. a comb having narrow, closely set teeth. 2. go over or through with a fine tooth comb, to examine in close detail; search thoroughly; fine comb: The police went over the apartment with a fine tooth comb. Also, fine toothed comb… …
123hatch — hatch1 hatchable, adj. hatchability, n. hatcher, n. /hach/, v.t. 1. to bring forth (young) from the egg. 2. to cause young to emerge from (the egg) as by brooding or incubating. 3. to bring forth or produce; devise; create …
124shipworm — /ship werrm /, n. any of various wormlike marine bivalve mollusks that burrow into the timbers of ships, wharves, etc. [1770 80; SHIP + WORM] * * * or pileworm Any of approximately 65 species (family Teredidae) of common marine bivalves that can… …
125silky — silkily, adv. silkiness, n. /sil kee/, adj., silkier, silkiest. 1. of or like silk; smooth, lustrous, soft, or delicate: silky skin. 2. Bot. covered with fine, soft, closely set hairs, as a leaf. [1605 15; SILK + Y1] * * * …
126tambour — /tam boor, tam boor /, n. 1. Music. a drum. 2. a drum player. 3. Also called tabaret. a circular frame consisting of two hoops, one fitting within the other, in which cloth is stretched for embroidering. 4. embroidery done on such a frame. 5.… …
127antiarch — ▪ paleontology any of an order of extinct, mainly freshwater, jawed fishes, class Placodermi, abundant during Middle and Late Devonian times (387 to 360 million years ago). Members of such genera as Bothriolepis and Pterichthys were… …
128opus vermiculatum — ▪ mosaic type of mosaic work frequently used in Hellenistic (Hellenistic Age) and Roman times, in which part or all of a figural mosaic is made up of small, closely set tesserae (cubes of stone, ceramic, glass, or other hard material) that… …
