wall pellitory (wal pel it or i)

A plant, Parietaria officinal is, with a diuretic and refrigerant property, considerably used in.continental Europe, especially in domestic practice. See pellitory. wall-pennywort (wâl'pen"i-wert), n. See pen nywort (a). wall-pepper (wâl'peper), п. The stonecrop, Sedum acre, an intensely acrid plant formerly used as a remedy in scorbutic diseases. See stonecrop. wall-pie (wâl'pi), n. Same as wall - rue. wall-piece (wal'pēs), n. A piece of artillery prepared for mounting on the wall of a fortre , as distinguished from one intended for transportation from place to place; especially, of ancient firearms, a light gun, a long musket, or the like, mounted on a swivel. As muzzle-loaders, wall - pieces , on account of the length of their barrels, were most difficult to load, so that we find more breech-loading wall-pieces than early breech loading small-arms. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 91. wall-plat (wâl'plat), n . 1. Same as wall - bird . -2. Same as wall - plate , 1. Hall i well . wall-plate (wal'plat), n. 1. In building , a timber placed horizontally in or on a wall, under the ends of girders, joists, and other timbers. Its function is to insure even distribution of pre ures, and to bind the wall together. The wall-plate of a roof of circular or elliptical plan is called a curb - plate . See cuts under plate , 7, and roof . 2. In mining , one of the two long pieces of timber which with two short ones (end pieces) make up a set in the timbering of a shaft. The sets are usually from 5 to 6 feet apart, and are themselves supported by the studdles in the corners of the shaft. 3. In mach ., a vertical plate at the back of a plumber-block bracket, for attaching it to a IMG:content-2032.png:[merged small][graphic] Wall-tower, 13th century.- Fortifications of Car cas sonne, France. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. de l'Architecture.") modification of military engineering. See also cut under castle.