Search the Dictionary

Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

tion." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

A transparent crystalline substance,

A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.

A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to the Ctenophora.

A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate of aluminium and glucinum (beryllium). The aquamarine is a transparent, sea-green variety used as a gem. The emerald is another…

ctive substances, as radium. They consist of negatively charged particles or electrons, apparently the same in kind as those of the cathode rays, but having much higher velocities (about 35,000 to 180,000 miles per second).

Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak.

tained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

production of living organisms can take place only through the agency of living germs or parents; -- opposed to abiogenesis.

imes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.