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A contrivance for hatching eggs by artificial heat.

Specifically: (Steam Boilers) An arrangement of pipes for heating feed water by waste heat in the gases passing to the chimney.

The ratio of useful work to energy expended. Rankine. Efficiency of a heat engine, the ratio of the work done an engine, to the work due to the heat supplied to it.

Greatly; enormously; shamefully; as, egregiously cheated.

They have a large electrical organ and are able to give powerful shocks; -- called also sheathfish. -- Electric clock. See under Clock, and see Electro-chronograph. -- Electric current, a current or stream of electricity traversing a closed circuit formed of conducting substances, or passing by means of conductors f…

ike; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit passes between the poles or through any imperfectly conducting substance or space. It is generally brought into action by any disturbance of molecular equilibriu…

The whole material composing the world. The elements shall melt with fervent heat. 2 Peter iii. 10.

The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.

process of separating a fusible substance from one less fusible, by means of a degree of heat sufficient to melt the one and not the other, as an alloy of copper and lead; liquation. Ure.

Act of eluding; adroit escape, as by artifice; a mockery; a cheat; trickery.

To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset. A knight her met in mighty arms embossed. Spenser.

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.

putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes. issue bank notes.

emission; comparative facility of emission, or rate at which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of a heated body.

w or give out; to cause to issue; to give vent to; to eject; to discharge; as, fire emits heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

ilt market town. Macaulay. It is pride . . . which fills our streets, our emporiums, our theathers. Knox.

s or actions; an assiduous striving to equal or excel another; rivalry. A noble emulation heats your breast. Dryden.

Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile (Fine Arts), an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.…

To chafe; to enrage; to heat. [Obs.] Shak.

Heating; burning. [Obs.] The wicked enchaufing or ardure of this sin [lust]. Chaucer.