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Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression.

s used, and additions of basic material are made to the molten charge during treatment. Opposed to acid process, above. Called also Thomas process.

Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

A large piece of ordnance, so called from its supposed resemblance to the serpent of that name, or from its size. [Obs.]

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to, or having the nature of, a basyle; electro- positive; basic; -- opposed to chlorous. Graham.

latinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

d in the preparation of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

In the East, an exchange, marketplace, or assemblage of shops where goods are exposed for sale.

The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection. But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies. Pope.

As opposed to man: Any irrational animal.

A division of the Bantus, dwelling between the Orange and Zambezi rivers, supposed to be the most ancient Bantu population of South Africa. They are divided into totemic clans; they are intelligent and progressive.

eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

nd some other wines after long keeping. It consists of pure, shining scales of tartar, supposed to resemble the wing of a bee.

On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front; -- opposed to in the rear. The battle was before and behind. 2 Chron. xiii. 14.

Existence, as opposed to nonexistence; state or sphere of existence. In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts xvii. 28.

; as, with the air pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust from articles exposed to view.

The process of washing molten pig iron by adding iron oxide, proposed by I. Lowthian Bell of England about 1875.

e neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.