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A rough coat of mortar put upon a wall to give it the appearance of stone; rough-cast.

To render impervious to sound, as a partition or floor, by filling the space within with mortar, by lining with paper, etc.

To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.

outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders. [R.] Weale.

The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work.

case ready for loading. -- Fixed battery (Mil.), a battery which contains heavy guns and mortars intended to remain stationary; -- distinguished from movable battery. -- Fixed bodies, those which can not be volatilized or separated by a common menstruum, without great difficulty, as gold, platinum, lime, etc. -- Fix…

England, on the face of which are exposed the black surfaces of broken flints set in the mortar, with quions of masonry. -- Liquor of flints, a solution of silica, or flints, in potash. -- To skin a flint, to be capable of, or guilty of, any expedient or any meanness for making money. [Colloq.]

ded, rubbed, or cut to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work. -- Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.

A conical chamber at the breech of the bore in heavy ordnance, especially in mortars; -- named after the inventor.

A thin, coarse mortar, used for pouring into the joints of masonry and brickwork; also, a finer material, used in finishing the best ceilings. Gwilt.

To become hard or harder; to acquire solidity, or more compactness; as, mortar hardens by drying. The deliberate judgment of those who knew him [A. Lincoln] has hardened into tradition. The Century.

A small board, with a handle on the under side, to hold mortar. Hawk boy, an attendant on a plasterer to supply him with mortar.

A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.

A kind of wooden tray with a handle, borne on the shoulder, for carrying mortar, brick, etc.

short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. [Obs.]

r, 2. -- Hydraulic brake, a cataract. See Cataract, 3. -- Hydraulic cement, a cement or mortar made of hydraulic lime, which will harden under water. -- Hydraulic elevator, a lift operated by the weight or pressure of water. -- Hydraulic jack. See under Jack. -- Hydraulic lime, quicklime obtained from hydraulic li…

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

ween them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

ween the adjacent surfaces of two bodies joined and held together, as by means of cement, mortar, etc.; as, a thin joint.

d with water, forming slacked lime, and is an essential ingredient of cement, plastering, mortar, etc.CaO