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n. [ Arm + hole. ] 1. The cavity under the shoulder; the armpit. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A hole for the arm in a garment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The building where customs and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The parchment or skin stretched over one end of a drum. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The top of a capstan which is pierced with sockets for levers used in turning it. See Illust. of Capstan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drumhead court-martial (Mil.), a summary court-martial called to try offenses on the battlefield or the line of march, when, sometimes, a drumhead has to do service as a writing table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as jimdandy.
Syn. -- jimdandy, crackerjack. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ G. krummhorn cornet; krumm crooked + horn horn. ] (Mus.) (a) A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.). (b) A reed stop in the organ; -- sometimes called cremona. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or , n. A dog held in a leam; a bloodhound; a limehound. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Anagram of ohm. ] (Elec.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Mho + -meter. ] (Elec.) An instrument for measuring conductivity. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) See Mohr. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) An African two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus or Rhinoceros simus); -- called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros. [ 1913 Webster ]