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An apparatus for measuring the amount of heat contained in bodies or developed by some mechanical or chemical process, as friction, chemical combination, combustion, etc.

Measurement of the quantities of heat in bodies.

A voltaic battery, having a large surface of plate, and producing powerful heating effects.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

which remains when a metal or mineral has been subjected to calcination or combustion by heat, and which is, or may be, reduced to a fine powder.

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

arrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat. Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a given number of thermometric degrees, and this difference is the measure of, or depends upon, whzt is called their capacity for h…

s capsule, a membranous envelope, entering the liver along with the portal vessels and insheathing the latter in their course through the organ. -- Suprarenal capsule, an organ of unknown function, above or in front of each kidney.

Burnt sugar; a brown or black porous substance obtained by heating sugar. It is soluble in water, and is used for coloring spirits, gravies, etc.

und, SiC, consisting of carbon and silicon in combination; carbon silicide. It is made by heating carbon and sand together in an electric furnace. The commercial article is dark-colored and iridescent. It is harder than emery, and is used as an abrasive.

a grayish explosive crystalline compound, C6O6K, obtained by passing carbon monoxide over heated potassium.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.

An ideal heat-engine cycle in which the working fluid goes through the following four successive operations: (1) Isothermal expansion to a desired point; (2) adiabatic expansion to a desired point; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.…

seed, so that fruit and seed are incorporated in one body, forming a single grain, as of wheat, barley, etc.

A box, sheath, or covering; as, a case for holding goods; a case for spectacles; the case of a watch; the case (capsule) of a cartridge; a case (cover) for a book.

A knife carried in a sheath or case. Addison.

An outside covering, for protection or ornament, or to precent the radiation of heat.

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

By extension: To supply what is needed or desired, at theatrical or musical entertainments; -- followed by for or to.

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.