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uctile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac. [Written also tombak, and tambac.]

a simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.

The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.

ngs in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

of horses. Steeds . . . that trapped were in steel all glittering. Chaucer. To deck his hearse, and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

c tufa, formed of decomposed trachytic cinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort of plaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns and other reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras, tarrace, terras.]

A white variety of amphibole, or hornblende, occurring in long, bladelike crystals, and coarsely fibrous masses.

over; to turn or throw about, as for examination or search; to roll or move in a rough, coarse, or unceremonious manner; to throw down or headlong; to precipitate; -- sometimes with over, about, etc.; as, to tumble books or papers.

A translucent mineral of a green color and pearly or vitreous luster. It is a hydrous arseniate of copper.

A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster, containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.

The entrails and coarser parts of a deer; hence, sometimes, entrails, in general. [Written also humbles.] Johnson.

Not civil; coarse; clownish. [R.] Addison.

Insufficiently provided with hands or workers; short-handed; sparsely populated. Norway . . . might defy the world, . . . but it is much underhanded now. Coleridge.

Not soft; hard; coarse; rough. [Obs.] "Bristles of his beard unsoft." Chaucer.

The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle.

The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.

A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.

Fault; defect; coarseness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

age, it [foul language] is termed villainy, as being proper for rustic boors, or men of coarsest education and employment. Barrow. Villainy till a very late day expressed words foul and disgraceful to the utterer much oftener than deeds. Trench.

Madeira mahogany; the coarse, dark-colored wood of the Persea Indica.