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The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, -- often due to contraction from extreme cold.

A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.

d by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought. The whole mass of residua which have been accumulated . . . all enter now into the process of ideation. J. D. Morell.

A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

kes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. "Painted imagery." Shak. In those oratories might you see Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to an imago. Imaginal disks (Zoöl.), masses of hypodermic cells, carried by the larvæ of some insects after leaving the egg, from which masses the wings and legs of the adult are subsequently formed.

To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

ke brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

rd with his people; -- sung on the morning of the Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual. Grove.

A foreign substance, either liquid or solid, usually of minute size, inclosed in the mass of a mineral.

To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients. into one consistent mass. By your leaves, you shall not stay alone, Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak.

The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis.

Not discrete or separated; compact; homogenous. An indiscrete mass of confused matter. Pownall.

Indistinct. [R.] "That indistinguished mass." Sir T. Browne.

tory scene, as to a play; a preface; a prologue. [Obs.] This is but an induction: I will dMassinger.

o figure; to fashion. "The informing Word." Coleridge. Let others better mold the running mass Of metals, and inform the breathing brass. Dryden. Breath informs this fleeting frame. Prior. Breathes in our soul,informs our mortal part. Pope.

A bar or wedge of steel, gold, or other malleable metal, cast in a mold; a mass of unwrought cast metal. Wrought ingots from Besoara's mine. Sir W. Jones. Ingot mold, a box or mold in which ingots are cast. -- Ingot iron. See Decarbonized steel, under Decarbonize.

private thoughts and feelings. Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely. Massinger.

ating; a creeping, winding, or flowing in. By a soft insinuation mix'd With earth's large mass. Crashaw.

A rising in mass to oppose an enemy. [Obs.]