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A soft ointment prepared from oil. Dunglison.

Originally, a medicine of a thicker consistence than sirup, prepared with opium. Parr.

A dining room or eating house where a meal is prepared for all comers, at a fixed price for the meal, in distinction from one where each dish is separately charged; a table d'hôte; hence, also, the meal furnished at such a dining room. Shak. All the odd words they have picked up in a coffeehouse, or a gaming ordinary,…

A sirup in which, formerly, a decoction of barley entered, but which is now prepared with an emulsion of almonds, -- used to flavor beverages or edibles.

lis as an acid potassium oxalate, and in many plant tissues as the calcium oxalate. It is prepared on a large scale, by the action of fused caustic soda or potash on sawdust, as a white crystalline substance, which has a strong acid taste, and is poisonous in large doses. It is used in dyeing, calico printing, bleachin…

nd Illust. of Piston. -- Packing sheet. (a) A large cloth for packing goods. (b) A sheet prepared for packing hydropathic patients.

The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.

The skin of a lamb, sheep, goat, young calf, or other animal, prepared for writing on. See Vellum. But here's a parchment with the seal of Cæsar. Shak.

ners, an armistice, or terms of peace. They are at hand, To parley or to fight; therefore prepare. Shak.

Specifically, in cookery, a dough prepared for the crust of pies and the like; pastry dough.

Fig.: To make smooth, easy, and safe; to prepare, as a path or way; as, to pave the way to promotion; to pave the way for an enterprise. It might open and pave a prepared way to his own title. Bacon.

That branch of pharmacology which treats of unprepared medicines or simples; -- called also pharmacography, and pharmacomathy.

An electrotype plate formed in a mold made by photographing on prepared gelatine, etc.

Art or process of decorating pottery with photographically prepared designs. -- Pho`to*ce*ram"ic (#), a.

ic*al*ly, adv. Photographic printing, the process of obtaining pictures, as on chemically prepared paper, from photographic negatives, by exposure to light.

A lithographic picture or copy from a stone prepared by the aid of photography.

culty, or disorder. "How cam'st thou in this pickle" Shak. -- To put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.

Any material from which a dye, a paint, or the like, may be prepared; particularly, the refined and purified coloring matter ready for mixing with an appropriate vehicle.

Hylobius, etc. -- Pine wool, a fiber obtained from pine needles by steaming them. It is prepared on a large scale in some of the Southern United States, and has many uses in the economic arts; -- called also pine- needle wool, and pine-wood wool.