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Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.

Triable :: Triable (a.) Liable to undergo a judicial examination; properly coming under the cognizance of a court; as, a cause may be triable before one court which is not triable in another..

Prey :: Prey (n.) That which is or may be seized by animals or birds to be devoured; hence, a person given up as a victim..

Expose :: Expose (v. t.) To lay bare; to lay open to attack, danger, or anything objectionable; to render accessible to anything which may affect, especially detrimentally; to make liable; as, to expose one's self to the heat of the sun, or to cold, insult, danger, or ridicule; to expose an army to destruction or defeat..

Stamped :: Stammering (n.) A disturbance in the formation of sounds. It is due essentially to long-continued spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm, by which expiration is preented, and hence it may be considered as a spasmodic inspiration..

Confession :: Confession (n.) An admission by a party to whom an act is imputed, in relation to such act. A judicial confession settles the issue to which it applies; an extrajudical confession may be explained or rebutted..

Nebuly :: Nebuly (a.) Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded.

Uninfringible :: Uninfringible (a.) That may not be infringed; as, an uninfringible monopoly..

Understate :: Understate (v. t.) To state or represent less strongly than may be done truthfully.

Metabolism :: Metabolism (n.) The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism)..

Clutch :: Clutch (n.) A device which is used for coupling shafting, etc., so as to transmit motion, and which may be disengaged at pleasure..

Maypole :: Maypole (n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had..

Review :: Review (n.) To reexamine judically; as, a higher court may review the proceedings and judgments of a lower one..

Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..

Liveryman :: Liveryman (n.) A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges, as the right of voting in an election for the lord mayor, sheriffs, chamberlain, etc..

Admissible :: Admissible (a.) Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible..

Intensity :: Intensity (n.) The magnitude of a distributed force, as pressure, stress, weight, etc., per unit of surface, or of volume, as the case may be; as, the measure of the intensity of a total stress of forty pounds which is distributed uniformly over a surface of four square inches area is ten pounds per square inch..

Requitable :: Requitable (a.) That may be requited.

Flight-shot :: Flight-shot (n.) The distance to which an arrow or flight may be shot; bowshot, -- about the fifth of a mile..

Analyzable :: Analyzable (a.) That may be analyzed.

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