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iting liquid through the cell or cells. Knight. -- Flowing furnace, a furnace from which molten metal, can be drawn, as through a tap hole; a foundry cupola. -- Flowing sheet (Naut.), a sheet when eased off, or loosened to the wind, as when the wind is abaft the beam. Totten.

nic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; -- also called fluxion structure.

The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.

The crucible or basin in a furnace which receives the molten metal. Knight.

The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]

To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the forming table.

A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." Moltey.

t hatches from the egg until it becomes a pupa, or chrysalis. During this time it usually molts several times, and may change its form or color each time. The larvæ of many insects are much like the adults in form and habits, but have no trace of wings, the rudimentary wings appearing only in the pupa stage. In other g…

The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

onstruct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Ex. xxxii. 4.

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

luminium is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay; also, a casting made by this proc…

See Molt.

Having molted. [Obs.] "A moulten raven." Shak.

To mew; to molt. [Obs.] Quarles.

To cast off; to molt. Have I muted all my feathers Beau. & Fl.

rgentiferous lead by repeated meltings and skimmings, which concentrate the silver in the molten bath, the final skimmings being nearly pure lad. The processwas invented in 1833 by Hugh Lee Pattinson, an English metallurgist.

To stir, as molten glass, with a pole.

Bearing or containing a pupa; -- said of dipterous larvæ which do not molt when the pupa is formed within them.

An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.