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thes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

Causing sickness; specif., causing surfeit or disgust; nauseating. -- Sick"en*ing*ly, adv.

The science treating of the life of trees in the forest.

ell if he sit at a great rent". Bacon. -- To sit at meat or at table, to be at table for eating. -- To sit down. (a) To place one's self on a chair or other seat; as, to sit down when tired. (b) To begin a siege; as, the enemy sat down before the town. (c) To settle; to fix a permanent abode. Spenser. (d) To rest; to…

Act of covering or treating with size.

To spill liquid upon; to smear carelessly; to spill, as liquid foed or drink, in careless eating or drinking. The milk pan and cream pot so slabbered and tost That butter is wanting and cheese is half lost. Tusser.

To destroy the life of by beating, or by weapons of any kind; to slay by a blow; to kill; as, to smite one with the sword, or with an arrow or other instrument.

Augury; prognostication. [Obs.] The soothe of birds by beating of their wings. Spenser.

Filled with air by beating, and baked; as, an omelette soufflé.

heavy; laid on with force; as, a sound beating.

ines. -- Thermal spectrum, a spectrum of rays considered solely with reference to their heating effect, especially of those rays which produce no luminous phenomena.

g of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food. "Therefore behoveth him a full long spoon That shall eat with a fiend," thus heard I say. Chaucer. He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil. Shak.

To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.

To be tired of eating, as cattle. [Prov. Eng.]

A kind of heavy hammer, or pestle, raised by water or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

The art of delineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.

The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

The practice of treating disease by alcoholic stimulants. Dr. H. Hartshorne.

y in place. -- To stock cards (Card Playing), to arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes. [Cant] -- To stock down (Agric.), to sow, as plowed land, with grass seed, in order that it may become swarded, and produce grass. -- To stock up, to extirpate; to dig up.