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er cent of carbon. It is made either directly from the ore, as in the Catalan forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery. It is tough, malleable, and ductile. When formed into bars, it is called bar iron.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine, and isomeric with cinnamic acid.

Designating an acid isomeric with cyanic acid. Isocyanic acid, an acid metameric with cyanic acid, and resembling it in its salts. It is obtained as a colorless, mobile, unstable liquid by the heating cyanuric acid. Called technically carbimide.

Designating, or pertaining to, an acid isomeric with cyanuric acid, and called also fulminuric acid. See under Fulminuric.

A crystalline, nitrogenous base, C10H14N2, isomeric with nicotine.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid isomeric with nicotinic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, HNCS, isomeric with sulphocyanic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid, isomeric with uric acid.

An artificial nitrogenous base, isomeric with urea, and forming a white crystalline substance; -- called also isuretine.

play the jockey toward; to cheat; to trick; to impose upon in trade; as, to jockey a customer.

. A bloomery fire. See Bloomery.

A variety of the boomerang.

water, with an intensely sour taste and strong acid reaction. There are at least three isomeric modifications all having the formula C3H6O3. Sarcolactic or paralactic acid occurs chiefly in dead muscle tissue, while ordinary lactic acid results from fermentation. The two acids are alike in having the same constitution…

In Louisiana, a trifling present given to customers by tradesmen; a gratuity.

y word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Ps. cxix. 105. Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared. Cowper.

to lapse into the barbarity of those northern nations from whom we are descended. Swift. Homer, in his characters of Vulcan and Thersites, has lapsed into the burlesque character. Addison.

smear with lard or fat. In his buff doublet larded o'er with fat Of slaughtered brutes. Somerville.

A colorless substance isomeric with chlorophyll, contained in parts of plants capable of becoming green. Watts.

A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss.

Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two English astronomers named Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. In an extended sense, the line between the free and the slave States. -- On the line, on a level with the eye of the spectator; -- said of a picture, as hung in an exhibition of pictu…