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The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

In a hot or baking manner.

In manner to balk or frustrate.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

A plane used for cutting out grooves and inlaying strings and bands in straight and circular work.

Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] Forby.

The business of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

ly contemptuous or depreciatory.] In what out of the way corners genius produces her bantlings. W. Irving.

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.

Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees. Gardner.

The act of closing the doors of a schoolroom against a schoolmaster; -- a boyish mode of rebellion in schools. Swift.

ne of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

A mode of printing on glazed ware.

Shaped like a bat's wing; as, a bat's-wing burner.

A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.