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A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cells collect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at a temperature of 4º - 10º C. (39º - 50ºF.). It is used in making lager beer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.

able barrels of breech- loading shotguns are locked, unlocked, or rotated to loading position.

See Bryony. Tennyson.

A nectarine.

The act or process of making brutal; state of being brutalized.

r uncurrent coin. [Obs.] And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition. Bacon.

Same as Bunyon.

An enlargement and inflammation of a small membranous sac (one of the bursæ muscosæ), usually occurring on the first joint of the great toe.

ornia (Carpodacus frontalis); -- called also crimson-fronted bullfinch. [Written also burrion.]

An election held by itself, not at the time of a general election.

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

The act or process of curling the hair. [Obs.] burton.

The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

The act or process of disintegrating a substance, or rendering it friable by the action of heat, esp. by the expulsion of some volatile matter, as when carbonic and acid is expelled from carbonate of calcium in the burning of limestone in order to make lime.

Act of kicking.

The act or process, or the result, of calculating; computation; reckoning, estimate. "The calculation of eclipses." Nichol. The mountain is not so his calculation makes it. Boyle.

The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies.

tube, in order to graduate it to a scale of degrees; also, more generally, the determination of the true value of the spaces in any graduated instrument.