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A chest, box, coffer, bin, coop, or the like, in which things may be stored, or animals kept; as, a grain hutch; a rabbit hutch.

and containing ether and a thermometer. Ether being poured on the muslin, the black ball, cooled by the evaporation of the ether within, is soon covered with dew; at this moment, the inclosed thermometer gives the dew-point, and this, compared with the reading of one in the air, determines the humidity.…

through ice. -- Ice box or chest, a box for holding ice; a box in which things are kept cool by means of ice; a refrigerator. -- Ice brook, a brook or stream as cold as ice. [Poetic] Shak. -- Ice cream Etym: [for iced cream], cream, milk, or custard, sweetened, flavored, and frozen. -- Ice field, an extensive shee…

on to action or exertion; want of energy; sluggishness. The gloomy inactivity of despair. Cook.

To confine in, or as in, a cage; to coop up. [Written also encage.] "Incaged birds." Shak.

the genus Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red berries. -- Indian dye, the puccoon. -- Indian fig. (Bot.) (a) The banyan. See Banyan. (b) The prickly pear. -- Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially…

To chill; to make cold; to cool. [Obs.] Boyle.

Into, or towards, the interior, away from the coast. Cook. The greatest waves of population have rolled inland from the east. S. Turner.

Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.

g. Because of the intense heat produced by the frequent explosions, the cylinders must be cooled by a water jacket (water-cooled) or by air currents (air cooled) to give the maximum thermodynamic efficiency and to avoid excessive friction or seizing.

ntersperse a book with pictures. Which space is interspersed with small islands and rock. Cook.

Incapable of being reformed; incorrigible. Joseph Cook.

Of fine appearance; handsome; excellent; lively; agreeable; pleasant. "A jolly cool wind." Sir T. North. [Now mostly colloq.] Full jolly knight he seemed, and fair did sit. Spenser. The coachman is swelled into jolly dimensions. W. Irving.

part which can be expressed from fruit, etc.; the fluid part which separates from meat in cooking. An animal whose juices are unsound. Arbuthnot. The juice of July flowers. B. Jonson. The juice of Egypt's grape. Shak. Letters which Edward Digby wrote in lemon juice. Macaulay. Cold water draws the juice of meat. Mrs. Wh…

e box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. [U.S.] J. F. Cooper.

To cool; to akin or stir [Obs.] While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Shak.

A cooler; a vat for cooling wort, etc. [Written also keelvat.] Johnson.

To cool. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The cocoon or chrysalis of an insect. B. Jonson.

mall wooden mess tub; -- a name given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. Cooper.