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A spiral spring having one or more coils of springs inclosed. net1 (net), n. and a. [ IMG:content-1321.png:[blocks in formation] imitating the above.- Bull-net, a large dip-net worked from the rigging by block and tackle, and used in unlading a purse-seine. - Casting-net, a fishing-net consisting of a circle of netting varying in diameter from 4 feet to 15 or more. To its circumference are attached, at short intervals, leaden weights. There is a central opening, usually constituted by a ferrule of bone or metal. One end of a long rope pa es through this ferrule, and to it are attached numerous cords extending to the lead-rope. The net is used by gathering up the casting-rope in a coil on one arm, and taking the net itself on the other. By a dexterous fling of the arm holding the net, this is thrown in such a way as to spread out completely, and it is sometimes hurled to a distance of many feet, so as to fall flat on the surface of the water. The leads sink immediately, forming a circular inclosure, and imprisoning any fish that happen to be under it at the time. The rope is then hauled in from the other end, causing the whole circumference to pucker inwardly, the leads and pucker coming together in a compact ma . These nets are extensively used in the West Indies and the southern United States. -Cast-net, a fishing-net that is cast; a casting-net. = MLG. nette = OHG. nezi, nezzi, MHG. netze, G.netz = Icel. net = Sw. nät = Dan.net = Goth. nat i, a net; cf. Icel. not, a large net. Root unknown.] I. n. 1. An open textile fabric, of cotton, linen, hemp, silk, or other material, tied or woven with a mesh of any size, designed or used for catching animals alive, either by inclosing or by entangling them; a netting or network used as a snare or trap. Nets are of high antiquity, and there are almost as many kinds of them as there are ways in which a piece of netting or a network can be adapted to the capture of animals. It is characteristic of nets to take the game alive, either by surrounding or inclosing it as in a bag or by entangling it in meshes. Many kinds of net are described and named-from the nature of the game, as, bird - nets, butterfly -nets, fish -nets; from the way in which the game is taken, as, gill -net, gill ing-net; from the way in which the net is handled or worked, as, beating - net, dip - net, draw - net, drag - net, drift net, drop-net, hand- net, landing -net, set- net, stake - net, scoop net; from the shape of the netting, as, bag -net, purse-net, Cherry-net, a net spread over a cherry-tree to keep off etc. In the fisheries in which nets are most used, many of them take other names, as fyke, pound, seine, weir, trap. (See these words and the above compounds.) Nets range in size from a few inches to a mile or more: thus, seines have been made reaching (with the ropes which haul them) 5 miles, and sweeping more than 1,000 acres of water-bottom. The material ranges from the finest silk, muslin, etc., to stout cordage; gut or sinew is sometimes used. The mesh is always made with a fixed, not running, knot. The appliances of nets are numerous: as, buoys or buoy-lines to float one border of the net or indicate the whereabouts of a net under water; sinkers, leads, or lead lines to sink one border of the net to the bottom of the water; cords or ropes for setting, stretching, hauling, pursing, etc., often worked by mechanical contrivances, as a windla operated by horse or steam-power; poles or stakes for setting, etc. In some kinds of set-nets or weirs the staking or paling is so extensive in comparison with the netting that the contrivance is converted into a wooden trap, and is, in fact, called a trap. See net1, v. t., 2. But as a brid, whiche woll alight And seeth the mete, but nought the nette . Gower, Conf. Amant., iii. And nets of various sorts, and various snares, The seine, the cast - net , and the wicker maze, To waste the watery tribes a you sand ways. Fawkes , tr. of Idylls of Theocritus, xxi. 2. Figuratively, a snare or device for entrapping or misleading in any way; a moral or mental trap or entanglement. Hue were laht by the net so bryd is in snare. Flemish Insurrection (Child's Ballads, VI. 272). So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodne make the net That shall enmesh them all. Shak., Othello, ii. 3. 367. Skill'd to retire, and in retiring draw Hearts after them tangled in amorous nets. Milton , P. R., ii. 162. 3. A light open woven fabric, as gauze or muslin, worn or used as a protection from annoying insects: as, a mosquito - net spread over a bed.-4. Machine-made lace of many kinds. IMG:content-1322.png:[blocks in formation] Clue-net, a purse-seine. [New Jersey.]-Collecting net, a small seine used for collecting fish for specimens of natural history; a collecting-seine. - Darned net, net of any kind, embroidered with either white or colored thread of any material. It differs from darned embroi dery in giving le solid and uniform opaque surfaces, and in depending more upon the outline formed by a single thread carried through the meshes. See darned netting, under netting. - Diving-net, a net arranged somewhat like a fyke, for taking rock-fish, perch, etc. [New Jersey.)-Draft-net, a haul-seine. [New Jersey.]Drag-net, a small seine dragged or hauled in shoal water, one end of the net being fastened in the mud by means of the staff. The drag-net is from 75 to 100 yards long, and 25 to 37 meshes deep, with a mesh of from 1 to 2 inches. The lead-line is provided with heavy lead sinkers, the cork-line with floats. - Dredge-net. See rake dredge.-Drift-net, a fishing-net which drifts with the tide. Drift-nets are arranged on the same principle as gill-nets (see gill - net ), except that they are allowed to drift about with the tide instead of being secured to stakes. They are shot or paid out from boats in a straight line, and kept perpendicular by buoys along the top and leads at the bottom, and are drawn out straight acro the current by a boat rowed in the proper direction.-Dutch net, a pound-net. [North Carolina.] - Gang or hook of nets. See gang. - Glade net. See glade -net. - Maltese net, in lace - making, a ground or réseau in which the Maltese cro appears, especially one consisting of octagons each inclosing a Maltese cro , and alternating with elongated hexagons and small triangles, producing a very complex pattern. - Run net, darned netting of a simple sort in which the needlework is not elaborately stitched. A. S. Cole, Embroidery and Lace. - To run the net, to feel for fish that may have been caught, by handling the cork-line of a net without further disturbing its set in the water; run the cork-line hand over hand. The struggling of the fish is readily felt in this way, and they are ungilled as soon as po ible, that they may not injure themselves nor be devoured by other fish. Water-net, a fresh-water alga, Hydro dicty on utriculatum. See Hy drodictyon. II. a. 1. Made of netting: as, a net fence. The varieties of machine-net formerly made were whip --2. Resembling netting; having a structure net, mail-net, patent net, drop-net, spider- net, balloon - net. The modern varieties, named according to the kind of mesh employed, are warp - net, point - net, and bobbin -net. Broad net is woven as wide as the machine will allow. Quillings are narrow widths, several being made at one time in the breadth of the machine. Fancy net has a gimp pattern worked in by hand (called lace - darning ) or by the Jacquard attachment. Here's a bit o' net , then, for you to look at before I tie up my pack:. spotted and sprigged, you see, beautiful, but yallow-'s been lyin' by an' got the wrong colour. George Eliot , Mill on the Flo , v. 2. 5. A light open meshed bag for holding or confining the hair. Some are made of threads so fine that they are called invisible nets. The hair is usually plaited down on each side of the face and inclosed in a net or cowl. Encyc. Brit ., VI. 470. 6. Anything formed with interstices or meshes like a net. Nets of checker-work, and wreaths of chain-work, for the chapiters. 1 Ki. vii. 17. Now on some twisted ivy-net, Now by some tinkling rivulet,... Her cream-white mule his pastern set. Tennyson, Lance lot and Guinevere. 7. In an at. and zoöl., a reticulation or cancellation; a network of anastomosing or inosculating filaments or ve els; a web or mesh; a rete.-8. In math., a rectilinear figure drawn as follows. For a plane net, four points in a plane are a umed, and through pairs of them, and of points subsequently obtained as intersections of lines, straight lines are drawn. For a net in space, five points are a umed, through triads of which, and of points subsequently obtained as intersections of three planes, planes are drawn. -Bag-and-stake net, a kind of net-weir similar to that form of seine sometimes used to take bluefish. In England the bag-and-stake nets are included in the law forbidding the use of fixed engines for the capture of salmon. Ma achusetts Report (1866), p. 28. Baird net, a form of collecting-net: named from its designer, Prof. S. F. Baird. - Bar-net, that part of a stake-net which is hung on stakes in a line at right angles with the shore, and with which the fish first come in contact. See stake-net. [Cana da.] - Bru els net. (a) The pillow-made ground of Bru els application lace. (b) A machine-made ground which is like netting-that is, one which has open meshes, large in proportion to the thickne of the threads.-3. Caught in a net; netted: as, net fish.-4. Reticulate or cancellate; netted or net-veined, as an insect's wings.-Net embroidery. (a) Decorative needlework done upon net as a foundation. (b) Decorative work done upon net, but not strictly needlework, as muslin appliqué (which see, under muslin ). - Net-mackerel. See mackerell. net1 (net), v.; pret. and pp. netted, ppr. netting. [ In med iæval times the vestments of the clergy frequently had netted coverings of silk. Drapers' Dict., p. 239. 2. To capture or take with a net, as game; insnare, entangle, or entrap in or by means of network, as any animal. Quadrupeds are not often netted, traps or snares or guns being commonly used for their capture. Birds are netted in several different ways: by springing a net over them; by driving them into a winged and tunneled net, as ducks; by the use of a handnet on a pole, as in taking insects; and by entangling them in the meshes of a spread net. Fishes, including shellfish, are netted by every device which can be put into effect by means of network. The use of the net in these cases is, however, in one of two leading methods, entangling and inclosing. In the former of these, the fish swims against a vertical sheet of netting, finds the mesh too small to go through, and is caught by the gills in trying to back out. Insects are netted by collectors in one of two ways: with the butterfly-net, which is a very light bag of silk, gauze, etc., on a frame and pole; and with the beating-net, a bag of stout cloth or light canvas on a frame, with a short handle, used to beat or brush the gra and bushes. See net1, n. 3. To take as if with a net; capture by arts, wiles, or stratagems; entangle in difficulty; beguile. And now I am here netted and in the toils. Scott . 4. To put into or surround with a net for protection or safe-keeping; hold in place by means of a net, as one's hair; veil or cover, as The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamle head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. net2 (net), a. [Also nett; F.net = It. net to (> D. G. Sw. Dan. net to ), clean, clear, neat, tid us , shining, sleek, neat: see neat2 , an earlier form from the same source.] 1. Clear; pure; unadulterated; neat: as, net (unadulterated) wines. Ca. Nay, look what a nose he hath. Be . My nose is net crimson. IMG:content-1324.png:[blocks in formation] ble or fixed. Net-fishing is regulated, and in netherlings (newH'er-lingz), n . pl . [ adv . A variant of nathele . Nethele e, let them a Gods name feede on theyr owne folly, so they seeke not to darken the beames of others glory. Spenser, Shep. Cal., Epistle. nethemostt, a. superl . An obsolete variant of nethermost. netherlt (петн'er), adv . [ME. nether, nither, nithar = OFries. nither , neder = D. neder = MLG. nedder = OHG. nidar , MHG. nider , G. nieder = Icel. nidhr = Sw.neder = Dan. neder- =Goth. *nithar (not recorded), downward; with compar. suffix -ther L.-ter, -terus = Gr. -τερος , and connected with several later forms with other suffixes, as AS. neothan , down, beneath, from beneath, neo- thane, beneath, = OS. nithana = MLG. neden, nedden = OHG. nidana , MHG. nidene, niden, G. nieden , below, beneath, Icel. nedhan , from be- neath, Sw. ned an = Dan. neden , beneath, ned , down (see beneath , aneath , ' neath ); from a stem *ni, Skt. ni, downward. The stem occurs in nest1 , q. v.] Downward; down. And nithful neddre, loth an lither, Sal gliden on hise brest nether. neather, neyther; net here , neothera , neothra = OS. nithiri = OFries. nithere , nedere , neer = D. neder = MLG. neddere = OHG. nidari, nidiri , nideri , MHG. nidere , nider , G. nieder- = Sw. nedra , nedre = Dan. nedre , adj., lower; from the adv.: see netherl , adv .] 1. Lower; under: opposed to upper : as, the nether millstone. Oh, that same drawing-in your nether lip there Foreshews no goodne , lady! Fletcher (and another ?), Nice Valour, i. 1. Silenus the Jester sat at the nether end of the table. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, i. 79. These gentlemen and ladyes sate on the neyther part of the rock. Undaunted to meet there whatever power Or spirit of the nethermost aby IMG:content-1325.png:[blocks in formation] sembly: opposed to upper house . Baker , Chronicles, p. 196. nether1+ (newH'er), v . t . [ nith- eren, nithren, neo the ren, nither i an , nithrian , net hori an, bring low, humiliate, accuse, con- demn (= OHG. niderren , bring low, humiliate, condemn, down, below, nether: see nether1 , adv . Hence dial. nidder , q. v.] To bring low; humiliate. nether2+ (петн'er), n. A variant of nedder1 , nad- der , adder1. MHG. niderest , niderst = Icel. nedhstr , neztr = 1820. Sw. Dan. nederst ); superl. of nether1 , a.] Low- est; nethermost. net-cault (net'kâl), n. 1. A mode of hair-dre - ing: same as crespine.-2. A net. netelt, n. A Middle English form of neat1 . nete2t, a . A Middle English form of neat2 . nete3 (nē'tē), n. [ νήτη , contr. of νεάτη (sc. nether-formed (newH'er-fôrmd), a. In geol., Fro the net here ste [var. nethemast ) lettre to the upper- este. Chaucer, Boëthius, i. prose 1. hypogene. Nether lander (new'er-lan-der), n. [= D. and Flem. Nederlander = G. Niederländer = Sw. Nederländer = Dan. Nederlander ; as Nether land (= D. and Flem. Nederland = G. Niederland = Sw. Dan. Nederland ), in pl. Netherlands , the Low Countries (see nether1 , a., and land1 ), + -er1.] A native or an inhabitant of the Netherlands or Holland, a kingdom of Europe situated near the North Sea, west of Germany and north of Belgium; an inhabitant of the Netherlands in an extended sense, including, besides the pres- ent kingdom, the former Spanish and Austrian Netherlands (now the kingdom of Belgium). The Nether landers set baits for the eye; they represent either pleasant objects, or such as are revered - saints and prophets. Edinburgh Rev. , CXLV. 19. Nether lan dish (newH'er-lan-dish), a . [= D. Nederlandsch = G. Niederländisch = Sw. Neder- ländsk = Dan. Nederlandsk ; as Nether land (see Nether lander ) + -ish1 .] Pertaining to the Neth- erlands or to the Nether landers. net-masonry (net'ma"sn-ri), n. bond, the joints of which resemble in appear- ance the meshes of a net; open reticulation. net-mender (net'men"dėr), n. One whose bus i- ne is the mending of nets. net-shoret (net'shōr), n. Forks of wood upon which nets are set for game. Nomenclator. net-structure (net's truktūr), n. In lithol., IMG:content-1326.png:[blocks in formation] Cidaria reticulata .