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An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Obs.] Raleigh.

eme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

A filament. [R.]

ed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

Having a casement or casements.

A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.

The powder used in cementation. See Cementation, n.., 2.

Steel produced by cementation; blister steel.

Of or pertaining to cement, as of a tooth; as, cemental tubes. R. Owen.

The act or process of cementing.

Having the quality of cementating or uniting firmly.

A person or thing that cements.

Of the nature of cement. [R.] Forsyth.