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A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion. Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zoöl.) The common pondfish.

To proceed along, with a view to some and or object; to follow; to go in; as, Captain Cook pursued a new route; the administration pursued a wise course.

hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of heat radiating from a fire, or the cooling influence of bodies. It is a differential thermometer, having one bulb coated with gold or silver leaf. [R.]

on of nausea. For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked Roscommon.

To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

ous motion; to tremble; to quake; to shudder; to shiver. The green leaves quiver with the cooling wind. Shak. And left the limbs still quivering on the ground. Addison.

e metallic atoms are basic radicals, while the nonmetallic atoms are acid radicals. J. P. Cooke.

Am extended cooking apparatus of cast iron, set in brickwork, and affording conveniences for various ways

Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton. New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. Dryden.

its natural state; not prepared by the action of heat; as, raw sienna; specifically, not cooked; not changed by heat to a state suitable for eating; not done; as, raw meat.

To boil or cook again; hence, to make over; to vamp up; to reconstruct. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

To chill; to cool. [Obs.] Refreyded by sickness . . . or by cold drinks. Chaucer.

Cooling; allaying heat or fever. Bacon.

To cause to become cool; to make or keep cold or cool.

The act or process of refrigerating or cooling, or the state of being cooled.

Cooling; allaying heat. -- n.

That which refrigerates or makes cold; that which keeps cool. Specifically:

Mitigating heat; cooling.