(historical) A late-medieval organiser of trading expeditions, especially one belonging to the Society of Merchant Venturers.

(anatomy) The mucous membrane that lines the nasal chambers; the pituitary membrane.

(mathematics, obsolete) An old kind of calculus in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces.

A tough kind of sheet brass from which cartridge shells are made.

Designating direct contact between two metal items or elements.

(US, military slang) Tinned meat.

A subgenre of black metal that focuses on slow, repetitive instrumentation and depressive or suicidal lyrics and imagery.

(US, euphemistic) offal

US spelling of newton metre

simple past tense of take the meaning