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Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

r kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. [Obs.] Shak.

The act or blazoning; blazoning; emblazonment.

The state of being blemished; blemish; disgrace; damage; impairment. For dread of blame and honor's blemishment. Spenser.

An omen; a prognostic. [Obs.] This foolish, dreaming, superstitious girl Makes all these bodements. Shak.

An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.

A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

Complete overthrow; disorder; a turning upside down.

A brabble. [R.] Holland.

Wrangle; brangle. [Obs.]

A thicket; a cluster of bushes. [Obs.] Raleigh.

eme arches are sustained, or by which the end of a bridge without arches is supported. Butment cheek (Carp.), the part of a mortised timber surrounding the mortise, and against which the shoulders of the tenon bear. Knight.

The act of cajoling; the state of being cajoled; cajolery. Coleridge.

A genus of trilobites characteristic of the Silurian age.

A town or village, or part of a town or village, assigned to a body of troops for quarters; temporary shelter or place of rest for an army; quarters.

A filament. [R.]

ed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window. A casement of the great chamber window. Shak.

Having a casement or casements.

The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.