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See Chord. [Obs.] Cord wood, wood for fuel cut to the length of four feet (when of full measure).

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

te of the Pennsylvania anthracite mines, consisting of fine coal, dust, etc., and used as fuel. Raymond.

rawn in by the suction stroke is so highly compressed that the heat generated ignites the fuel (usually crude oil), the fuel being automatically sprayed into the cylinder under pressure. The Diesel engine has a very high thermal efficiency.

A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel. [Scot.] Simmonds.

ine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States).

Fuel. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

life, action, or motion to; to make vigorous or active; to excite; to quicken; as, fresh fuel enlivens a fire. Lo! of themselves th' enlivened chessmen move. Cowley.

A bundle of sticks, twigs, or small branches of trees, used for fuel, for raising batteries, filling ditches, or other purposes in fortification; a fascine. Shak.

Fuel. [Obs.] Hooker.

Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in

An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

Wood for fuel.

The mode of introducing fuel into the furnace and working it. Knight.

An inclosed place in which heat is produced by the combustion of fuel, as for reducing ores or melting metals, for warming a house, for baking pottery, etc.; as, an iron furnace; a hot-air furnace; a glass furnace; a boiler furnace, etc.

the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.

. -- German steel (Metal.), a metal made from bog iron ore in a forge, with charcoal for fuel. -- German text (Typog.), a character resembling modern German type, used in English printing for ornamental headings, etc., as in the words,

A frame or bed, or kind of basket, of iron bars, for holding fuel while burning. Grate surface (Steam, Boiler) the area of the surface of the grate upon which the fuel lies in the furnace.

h through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

Wood allowed to a tenant for repairing the house and for fuel. This latter is often called firebote. See Bote.