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A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.

To cook, as macaroni, in a savory juice or sauce until juice is absorbed and a crisp surface forms.

The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.

An iron plate or pan used for cooking cakes.

A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.

The sac of silk taken from a silkworm (when ready to spin its cocoon), for the purpose of drawing it out into a thread. This, when dry, is exceedingly strong, and is used as the snood of a fish line. Blind gut. See CÆcum, n. (b).

sis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it resembles caoutchouc, and it is extensively used for many economical purposes. The Mimusops globosa of Guiana also yie…

as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment. Full sooty was her bower and eke her hall. Chaucer. Hence, as the entrance from outside was directly into the hall:…

which is hashed or chopped up; meat and vegetables, especially such as have been already cooked, chopped into small pieces and mixed.

g the wind. See under Haul, v. t. I . . . hauled up for it, and found it to be an island. Cook.

first; as, the head master of a school; the head man of a tribe; a head chorister; a head cook.

ve on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go heels over head, to turn over so as to bring the heels uppermost; hence, to move in a inconsiderate, or rash, manner. -- To have the heels of, to outrun. -- To lay by the heels, to fette…

Like hemp. "Beat into a hempen state." Cook.

Strong-scented; slightly tainted; as, epicures do not cook game before it is high.

meal, water, and salt, baked before the fire or in the ashes; -- so called because often cooked on a hoe. [Southern U.S.]

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.

e, affecting the internal substance of the horn. -- Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water. -- Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead. -- Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] Shak. -- Horn mercury. (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below). -- Horn poppy (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy (Gl…

Manuf.), an iron platform in a rolling mill, on which hot bars, rails, etc., are laid to cool. -- Hot wall (Gardening), a wall provided with flues for the conducting of heat, to hasten the growth of fruit trees or the ripening of fruit. -- Hot well (Condensing Engines), a receptacle for the hot water drawn from the…

A tool used by coopers for smoothing and chamfering rheir work, especially the inside of casks.