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's ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, -- used in the manufacture of fine glass.

The act or practice of multiplying copies of one's own handwriting, or of manuscripts, by printing from stone, -- a species of lithography.

Sometimes, the manubrium of a hydroid medusa.

ort arms. Began to hem him round with ported spears. Milton. Port arms, a position in the manual of arms, executed as above.

A variety of steatite sometimes manufactured into culinary vessels.

A manure made from night soil, dried and mixed with charcoal, gypsum, etc.

er, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript.

Volcanic ashes from Pozzuoli, in Italy, used in the manufacture of a kind of mortar which hardens under water.

A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed.

The anterior segment of the sternum; the manubrium. -- Pre*ster"nal, a.

hich their attendance is enforced. Burrill. -- Leblanc's process (Chem.), the process of manufacturing soda by treating salt with sulphuric acid, reducing the sodium sulphate so formed to sodium sulphide by roasting with charcoal, and converting the sodium sulphide to sodium carbonate by roasting with lime. -- Mesne…

A manual of processions; a processional. Fuller.

To give being or form to; to manufacture; to make; as, a manufacturer produces excellent wares.

One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

on of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.

One who favors the prohibition of the sale (or of the sale and manufacture) of alcoholic liquors as beverages.

, a straight-edge used by millers to test the flatness of a stone. -- Proof stick (Sugar Manuf.), a rod in the side of a vacuum pan, for testing the consistency of the sirup. -- Proof text, a passage of Scripture used to prove a doctrine. proof coin or proof, a coin which has been specially struck, to produce the fin…

roprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine. Proprietary articles, manufactured articles which some person or persons have exclusive right to make and sell. U. S. Statutes.

enovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.

ly liquid, H2S2O7 resembling sulphuric acid. It is used in the solution of indigo, in the manufacture of alizarin, and in dehydration.