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e by liquor; tipsy. [Slang] Cut and dried, prepered beforehand; not spontaneous. -- Cut glass, glass having a surface ground and polished in facets or figures. -- Cut nail, a nail cut by machinery from a rolled plate of iron, in distinction from a wrought nail. -- Cut stone, stone hewn or chiseled to shape after hav…

A pot, bucket, or basin, in which molten plate glass is carried from the melting pot to the casting table.

d pure white are more common among flowers of cyanic tendency than in those of the other class.

A glass of fishes having a suckerlike mouth, without jaws, as the lamprey; the Marsipobranchii.

a continuous sheet to the dryers. -- Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. -- Cylinder glass. See Glass. -- Cylinder mill. See Roller mill. -- Cylinder press. See Press.

A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.

an.daimyo The daimios, or territorial nobles, resided in Yedo and were divided into four classes. Am. Cyc.

A genus of low herbs (Bellis), belonging to the family Compositæ. The common English and classical daisy is B. prennis, which has a yellow disk and white or pinkish rays.

y in common life, or the mistress of a common school; as, a dame's school. In the dame's classes at the village school. Emerson.

More dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw. Shak. Shadows in the glassy waters dance. Byron. Where rivulets dance their wayward round. Wordsworth. To dance on a rope, or To dance on nothing, to be hanged.

ession is to dance in the temples, or for the amusement of spectators. There are various classes of dancing girls. -- Dancing master, a teacher of dancing. -- Dancing school, a school or place where dancing is taught.

An instrument for testing the density of gases, consisting of a thin glass globe, which is weighed in the gas or gases, and then in an atmosphere of known density.

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.

A Linnæan class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

A vessel used to decant liquors, or for receiving decanted liquors; a kind of glass bottle used for holding wine or other liquors, from which drinking glasses are filled.

he article the, which is used to designate a particular person or thing, or a particular class of persons or things; -- also called a definitive. See Definitive, n. -- Definite inflorescence. (Bot.) See Determinate inflorescence, under Determinate. -- Law of definite proportions (Chem.), the essential law of chemical…

A gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular or organs; hereditary degradation of type.

The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight.