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The process or operation of feeding the contents of the crucilbe with fresh material. B. Jonson.

Hollow; void of contents. [R.] As concave . . . as a worm-eaten nut. Shak.

A topical index or orderly analysis of the contents of a book.

A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed.

ed; the thing or things held by a receptacle or included within specified limits; as, the contents of a cask or bale or of a room; the contents of a book. I shall prove these writings . . . authentic, and the contents true, and worthy of a divine original. Grew.

A wadded covering for a teakettle or other vessel to keep the contents hot.

p; to extol; -- followed by up. [Low] To crack a bottle, to open the bottle and drink its contents. -- To crack a crib, to commit burglary. [Slang] -- To crack on, to put on; as, to crack on more sail, or more steam. [Colloq.]

The cover or case of a pie, in distinction from the soft contents.

The process of determining the solid or cubic contents of a body.

The contents of such a vessel; a cupful. Give me a cup of sack, boy. Shak.

One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocket To have an open ear, a quick eye, and a nimble hand, is necessary for a cutpurse. Shak.

the bursting open of follicles, as in the ovaries of animals, for the expulsion of their contents.

f or deliver a load, charge, or burden; to unload; to emit or give vent to fluid or other contents; as, the water pipe discharges freely. The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge. Bacon.

A discontented person; a malcontent. [R.] Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents. Fuller.

To become discharged; to flow put; to find vent; to pour out contents. Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Young.

to put an untrue appearance upon; to disguise; to mask. Dissemble all your griefs and discontents. Shak. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But -- why did you kick me down stairs J. P. Kemble.

, followed, on the completion of the division of the nucleus, by a separation of the cell contents into two masses, called the daughter cells. -- Long division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are mostly written down. -- Short division (Math.), the process of division when the operations are menta…

stract of (a writing) and indorse it on the back of the paper, or to indorse the title or contents on the back of; to summarize; as, to docket letters and papers. Chesterfield.

To exhaust of liquid contents by drawing them off; to make gradually dry or empty; to remove surface water, as from streets, by gutters, etc.; to deprive of moisture; hence, to exhaust; to empty of wealth, resources, or the like; as, to drain a country of its specie. Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the c…

To remove the contents of; as: