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[Archaic] The doors were all of adamants eterne, I-clenched overthwart and endelong With iron tough. Chaucer. He pricketh endelong the large space. Chaucer. To thrust the raft endlong across the moat. Sir W. Scott.

rous and massive; color grayish white or greenish. It is a silicate of magnesia with some iron. Bronzite is a ferriferous variety.

ve, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

An iron needle for piercing the cartridge of a cannon before priming.

A figure by which permission is either seriously or ironically granted to some one, to do what he proposes to do; e. g., "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still."

ons, not the essence of this virtue [charity]. Addison. The essence of Addison's humor is irony. Courthope.

ry dark color. [Written also Æthiops.] [Obs.] Ethiops martial (Old Chem.), black oxide of iron. -- Ethiops mineral (Old Chem.), black sulphide of mercury, obtained by triturating mercury with sulphur. -- Ethiops per se (Old Chem.), mercury in finely divided state, having the appearance of a dark powder, obtained by s…

neral of a brownish red color and vitreous luster, consisting chiefly of the silicates of iron, zirconia, and lime.

degree, irrespective of moral quality; -- used with words of a bad significance. [Obs. or Ironical] "An excellent hypocrite." Hume. Their sorrows are most excellent. Beau. & Fl.

for measuring the extension of a body, especially for measuring the elongation of bars of iron, steel, or other material, when subjected to a tensile force.

habit of a species, or group of species, esp. with reference to its adaptation to its environment.

A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

sket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- calles also pontee and punty.

object which comes with another object to which it is fastened; -- said of plates, angle irons, etc., that are riveted together in shipwork.

A black, greenish, or brownish mineral of the chrysolite group. It is a silicate of iron.

a field or other space, or about any object; especially, an inclosing structure of wood, iron, or other material, intended to prevent intrusion from without or straying from within. Leaps o'er the fence with ease into the fold. Milton.

The art of working in iron. [Obs.] Chapman.

Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The iron used for trying the melted glass to see if is fit to work, and for shaping the rings at the mouths of bottles.

A combining form indicating ferric iron as an ingredient; as, ferricyanide.