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A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel.

so called from having had, in the colonial days, judical power; as, the General Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] -- To pay one's court, to seek to gain favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to Tissaphernes." Jowett. -- To put out of court, to refuse further judicial hearing.…

A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.

ab plover (Zoöl.), an Asiatic plover (Dromas ardeola). -- Crab's eyes, or Crab's stones, masses of calcareous matter found, at certain seasons of the year, on either side of the stomach of the European crawfishes, and formerly used in medicine for absorbent and antacid purposes; the gastroliths. -- Crab spider (Zoöl.…

low the center, to the highest heavens. Bates. An upstart craned up to the height he has. Massinger.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided.

To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak.

anged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crudeprojects." Macualay. Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. Milton.

so as to destroy the natural shape or integrity of the parts, or to force together into a mass; as, to crush grapes. Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut. Lev. xxii. 24. The ass . . . thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall. Num. xxii. 25…

The dough, or mass of doughy paste, cooked with a potpie; -- also called dumpling. Th' impenetrable crust thy teeth defies. Dryden. He that keeps nor crust nor crumb. Shak. They . . . made the crust for the venison pasty. Macualay.

A fluoride of sodium and aluminum, found in Greenland, in white cleavable masses; -- used as a source of soda and alumina.

Anything separated or selected from a mass.

Mineral coal that is not bituminous; anthracite, especially when found in small masses.

Composed of parts in a heap; forming a mass; agregated. "As for knowledge which man receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, njt original." Bacon

The red oxide of copper; red copper; an important ore of copper, occurring massive and in isometric crystals.

as the broccoli and cauliflower. Broccoli should be cut while the curd, as the flowering mass is termed, is entire. R. Thompson. Cauliflowers should be cut for use while the head, or curd, is still close and compact. F. Burr.

Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. "A curdy mass." Arbuthnot.

efulness; painstaking. [Obs.] My father's care With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger.

a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston;