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A paste prepared from tobacco, and smoked in hookahs in Western India.

To prepare gradually; to arrange, temper, or modify by degrees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. Browne.

A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or bru…

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

One of the prepared entrails of an animal, esp. of a sheep, used for various purposes. See Catgut.

A dark brown powder containing iron, prepared by the action of zinc dust as a reducing agent upon the coloring matter of the blood, used medicinally as a hematinic.

tter of another person or thing. -- To his hand, To my hand, etc., in readiness; already prepared. "The work is made to his hands." Locke. -- To hold hand, to compete successfully or on even conditions. [Obs.] Shak. -- To lay hands on, to seize; to assault. -- To lend a hand, to give assistance. -- To lift, or put…

he English royal household who formerly preceded the court when traveling, to provide and prepare lodgings. Fuller.

Prepared in hell. Milton.

The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been extended to various fibers resembling the true hemp. African hemp, Bowstring hemp. See under African, and Bowstring. -- Bastard hemp, the Asiatic herb Datisca cannabina. -- Canada hemp, a species of dogbane (Apocynum cannabinum)…

An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

n house, or lodgings. (b) In one's own town or country; as, peace abroad and at home. (c) Prepared to receive callers. -- Home department, the department of executive administration, by which the internal affairs of a country are managed. [Eng.] To be at home on any subject, to be conversant or familiar with it. -- T…

One who prepares homilies; one who preaches to a congregation.

Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiled in water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]

Deprived of the hulls. Hulled corn, kernels of maize prepared for food by removing the hulls.

bination of these elements. Hydriodic acid (Chem.), a pungent, colorless gas, HI, usually prepared as a solution in water. It is strong reducing agent. Called also hydrogen iodine.

Fish glue; isinglass; a glue prepared from the sounds of certain fishes.

An oily substance prepared by the dry distillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.

Unforeseen; unexpected; not provided against; unprepared. [Obs.] All improvided for dread of death. E. Hall.

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous. [Obs.] Jonhson.