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A certain process for producing upon articles of iron or steel an adherent coating of the magnetic oxide of iron (which is not liable to corrosion by air, moisture, or ordinary acids). This is accomplished by producing, by oxidation at about 1600º F. in a closed space, a coating containing more or less of the ferric ox…

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

Same as Bower. [Obs.]

A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

To swell out. See Bouge. [Obs.]

A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice.

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balæna mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

the southwestern part of the United States. It was named from its inventor, Colonel James Bowie. Also, by extension, any large sheath knife.

The act or art of managing the bow in playing on stringed instruments. Bowing constitutes a principal part of the art of the violinist, the violist, etc. J. W. Moore.

In a bending manner.

A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in the form of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.

ious forms (often approximately hemisherical), to hold liquids, etc. Brought them food in bowls of basswood. Longfellow.

ded or not, that has been transported by natural agencies from its native bed. See Drift. Bowlder clay, the unstratified clay deposit of the Glacial or Drift epoch, often containing large numbers of bowlders. -- Bowlder wall, a wall constructed of large stones or bowlders.

Characterized by bowlders.

A crooked leg. Jer. Taylor.

One who plays at bowls, or who rolls the ball in cricket or any other game.

Destitute of a bow.

nd used to keep the weather edge of the sail tight forward, when the ship is closehauled. Bowline bridles, the ropes by which the bowline is fastened to the leech of the sail. -- Bowline knot. See Illust. under Knot. -- On a bowline, close-hauled or sailing close to the wind; -- said of a ship.

The act of playing at or rolling bowls, or of rolling the ball at cricket; the game of bowls or of tenpins. Bowling alley, a covered place for playing at bowls or tenpins. -- Bowling green, a level piece of greensward or smooth ground for bowling, as the small park in lower Broadway, New York, where the Dutch of New A…

See Bowl, a ball, a game.