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lume of a liquid, as by evaporation. The acid acquires a higher degree of concentration. Knight.

s for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air. Knight.

A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part. Visit by night your lady's chamber window With some sweet concert. Shak. And boding screech owls make the concert full. Shak. Concert pitch. See under Pitch.

on of scoriæ around the crater of a volcano, usually heaped up in a conical form. Now had Night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault. Milton.

r to the seller, to be allowed to defer paying for the stock purchased until the next fortnightly settlement day. [Eng.]

The space between the strands on the outside of a rope. Knight.

The act of formally betrothing a man and woman. This is the the night of the contract. Longwellow.

pulated. Conventional services reserved by tenures upon grants, made out of the crown or knights' service. Sir M. Hale.

here were converted into water. T. Burnet. That still lessens The sorrow, and converts it nigh to joy. Milton.

brake applied to the wheels of a carriage, to check their velocity in going down a hill. Knight.

Somewhat cool. The nights began to grow a little coolish. Goldsmith.

The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold. Knight. De Colange.

A narrow chisel adapted for cutting a groove. Knight.

An associate or companion; a friend; a partner. [Obs.] Misshapen time, copesmate of ugly Night. Shak.

, blue cordon], a first-rate cook, or one worthy to be the cook of the cordons bleus, or Knights of the Holy Ghost, famous for their good dinners. -- Cordon sanitaire (kd" s Etym: [F., sanitary cordon], a line of troops or military posts around a district infected with disease, to cut off communication, and thus preve…

alks and ears, or the stalks, ears, and seeds, after reaping and before thrashing. In one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail had thrashed the corn. Milton.

thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. -- Corpse gate, the gate of a burial plac…

t cost his life. A d'amond gone, cost me two thousand ducats. Shak. Though it cost me ten nights' watchings. Shak.

cut the ribs and open the thoracic cavity, in post-mortem examinations and dissections. Knight.

opriate to the time, place, or other circumstances represented or described. I began last night to read Walter Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel . . . .I was extremely delighted with the poetical beauty of some parts . . . .The costume, too, is admirable. Sir J. Mackintosh.