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(Tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

lived when learning was at its highest pitch. Addison. The exact pitch, or limits, where temperance ends. Sharp.

y spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster; sticking plaster.

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. Milton. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. Gen. xl. 11.

lness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor. This vile and preternatural temper of mind. South.

Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.

alcohol and water which contains one half of its volume of alcohol, the alcohol when at a temperature of 60º Fahrenheit being of specific gravity 0.7939 referred to water at its maximum density as unity. Proof spirit has at 60º Fahrenheit a specific gravity of 0.93353, 100 parts by volume of the same consisting of 50 p…

also observed in the spectra of some stars), obtained at the highest available laboratory temperatures (Lockyer); as protocalcium, protochromium, protocopper, protonickel, protosilicon, protostrontium, prototitanium, protovanadium. -- Pro`to*me*tal"ic (#), a.

age at which persons are capable of begetting or bearing children, usually considered, in temperate climates, to be about fourteen years in males and twelve in females.

Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.

The act or process of working and tempering clay to make it plastic and of uniform consistency, as for bricks, for pottery, etc.

minous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.

hich is liable to undergo decomposition when in contact with air and moisture at ordinary temperatures.

Producing heat; -- said of substances, as septic poisons, which elevate the temperature of the body and cause fever.

, One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.

Impatient; passionate; hasty; eager; eager; sharp; unceremonious; as, a quick temper. The bishop was somewhat quick with them, and signified that he was much offended. Latimer.

Affected with the distemper called rabies; mad; as, a rabid dog or fox.

or application of the thermopile, used for indicating minute changes of radiant heat, or temperature.