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tempered with water, sand, etc., molded into a regular form, usually rectangular, and sun-dried, or burnt in a kiln, or in a heap or stack called a clamp. The Assyrians appear to have made much less use of bricks baked in the furnace than the Babylonians. Layard.

Consumed with, or as with, fire; scorched or dried, as with fire or heat; baked or hardened in the fire or the sun. Burnt ear, a black, powdery fungus which destroys grain. See Smut. -- Burnt offering, something offered and burnt on an altar, as an atonement for sin; a sacrifice. The offerings of the Jews were a clean…

A kind of tobacco for smoking, made of the dried leaves, coarsely broken; -- so called from the rush baskets in which it is packed in South America. McElrath.

melt, found on the north Pacific coast; -- called also eulachon. It is so oily that, when dried, it may be used as a candle, by drawing a wick through it.

e same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.

A tierce or cask for dried fruits, etc., usually about 700 lbs. Simmonds.

Dried dung of cattle used as fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Waterland.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.

Anything dried up, withered, or without flavor; -- used contemptuously.

ated. Its solution is used for a sympathetic ink, the writing being nearly colorless when dried in the air, owing to absorbed moisture, and becoming bright blue when warmed.

The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.

A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of the Coccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities.

A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.

The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil is expressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]

tone and pressed out into cords (of various diameters) resembling brown twine, which are dried and cut to length. A variety containing less nitroglycerin than the original is known as cordite M. D.

To transfer (as sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire clotch mold to a felt blanket, for further drying.

Dried cow dung used as fuel.[Prov. Eng.] Simmonds.

A hard mass, made up of dried secretions blood, or pus, occurring upon the surface of the body.

inalis), native in Java and Borneo, but now cultivated in various tropical countries. The dried unripe fruit is much used in medicine as a stimulant and purgative.