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Secured by, or furnished with, crossbars. Milton.

The dome of a furnace.

A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

-considered; immature. "Crudeprojects." Macualay. Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. Milton.

Empty oyster shells and other substances laid down on oyster grounds to furnish points for the attachment of the spawn of the oyster. [Also written cutch.]

A furnace for melting iron or other metals in large quantity, -- used chiefly in foundries and steel works.

es, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

To furnish wich a curb, as a well; also, to restrain by a curb, as a bank of earth.

hen they join, Do glorify the banks that bound them in. Shak. The surface of the ocean is furrowed by currents, whose direction . . . the navigator should know. Nichol.

To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment. On impious realms and barbarous kings impose Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those. Pope. To curse by bell, book, a…

To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains. So when the sun in bed Curtained with cloudy red. Milton.

To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

To furnish with a cusp or cusps.

To end; to finish; as, to cut off further debate. -- To cut out. (a) To remove by cutting or carving; as, to cut out a piece from a board. (b) To shape or form by cutting; as, to cut out a garment. " A large forest cut out into walks." Addison. (c) To scheme; to contrive; to prepare; as, to cut out work for another da…

A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

A cephalopod of the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

diate in character between the palms and the pines. The pith of the trunk of some species furnishes a valuable kind of sago.

A firebrick wall, or a stone, which forms the front of the hearth of a blast furnace. Dam plate (Blast Furnace), an iron plate in front of the dam, to strengthen it.

en or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.