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Glance :: Glance (n.) An incidental or passing thought or allusion.

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees..

Profile :: Profile (n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.

Carburet :: Carburet (v. t.) To combine or to impregnate with carbon, as by passing through or over a liquid hydrocarbon; to carbonize or carburize..

Compassing :: Compassing (a.) Curved; bent; as, compassing timbers..

Regress :: Regress (n.) The power or liberty of passing back.

Conflux :: Conflux (n.) A large assemblage; a passing multitude.

Crupper :: Crupper (n.) A leather loop, passing under a horse's tail, and buckled to the saddle to keep it from slipping forwards..

Peragration :: Peragration (n.) The act or state of passing through any space; as, the peragration of the moon in her monthly revolution..

Solstice :: Solstice (v. i.) The time of the sun's passing the solstices, or solstitial points, namely, about June 21 and December 21. See Illust. in Appendix..

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion..

Graze :: Graze (v. i.) To touch something lightly in passing.

Bandlet :: Bandlet (n.) A small band or fillet; any little band or flat molding, compassing a column, like a ring..

Obsolescent :: Obsolescent (a.) Going out of use; becoming obsolete; passing into desuetude.

Transfluent :: Transfluent (a.) Passing or flowing through a bridge; -- said of water.

Transmigration :: Transmigration (n.) The act of passing from one country to another; migration.

Rowlock :: Rowlock (n.) A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the edge of the gunwale, sometimes of a single pin passing through the oar, or of a metal fork or stirrup pivoted in the gunwale and suporting the oar..

Transmigration :: Transmigration (n.) The passing of the soul at death into another mortal body; metempsychosis.

Passing :: Passing (a.) Relating to the act of passing or going; going by, beyond, through, or away; departing..

Collative :: Collative (a.) Passing or held by collation; -- said of livings of which the bishop and the patron are the same person.

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