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The characters of a mineral observed by the use of the blowpipe, as the degree of fusibility, flame coloration, etc.

e hydrous silicate of iron and manganese; -- so called from the odor given off before the blowpipe.

The weight which strikes the blow, in a pile driver, steam hammer, stamp mill, or the like.

The name for numerous simple, but very irregular, melodies of the Swiss mountaineers, blown on a long tube called the Alpine horn, and sometimes sung.

To strike with a quick, sharp blow; to knock; as, to rap on the door.

with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.

; to suffer; to be subjected to; as, to receive pleasure or pain; to receive a wound or a blow; to receive damage. Against his will he can receive no harm. Milton.

To blow the recheat. Drayton.

interchangeably; to alternate. One brawny smith the puffing bellows plies, And draws and blows reciprocating air. Dryden. Reciprocating engine, a steam, air, or gas engine, etc., in which the piston moves back and forth; -- in distinction from a rotary engine, in which the piston travels continuously in one direction…

[R.] High-kirtled for the chase, and what was shown Of maiden rondure, like the rose half-blown. Lowell.

A hot and destructive wind that sometimes blows, in Turkey, from the desert. It is identical with the simoom of Arabia and the kamsin of Syria.

[Written also scaur.] O sweet and far, from cliff and scar, The horns of Elfland faintly blowing. Tennyson.

A slight blow; a slap; a soft fall; also, the accompanying noise.

- Screw worm (Zoöl.), the larva of an American fly (Compsomyia macellaria), allied to the blowflies, which sometimes deposits its eggs in the nostrils, or about wounds, in man and other animals, with fatal results. -- Screw wrench. (a) A wrench for turning a screw. (b) A wrench with an adjustable jaw that is moved by…

ber of (cotton or silk) by beating; to free (fibrous substances) from dust by beating and blowing. Scutching machine, a machine used to scutch cotton, silk, or flax; -- called also batting machine.

-- applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from. "Secure from fortune's blows." Dryden.

Relating to the lake of Serbonis in Egypt, which by reason of the sand blowing into it had a deceptive appearance of being solid land, but was a bog. A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog . . . Where armies whole have sunk. Milton.

him from the hour of my nativity, . . . and have nothing at his hands for my service but blows. Shak. This poem was the last piece of service I did for my master, King Charles. Dryden. To go on the forlorn hope is a service of peril; who will understake it if it be not also a service of honor Macaulay.…

That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which settles or decides a contest. [Colloq.]

The game of hockey; -- so called because of the liability of the players to receive blows on the shin. Halliwell.