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d in various arts. It is a vitreous substance made of cobalt, potash, and calcined quartz fused, and reduced to a powder.

To melt or fuse, as, ore, for the purpose of separating and refining the metal; hence, to reduce; to refine; to flux or scorify; as, to smelt tin.

A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.

A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.

A short candle end used for igniting a fuse. Raymond.

Is it thus do you mean what you say -- with an upward tone; as, do you say he refuses So [Colloq.]

; a metallic coment. Hence, anything which unites or cements. Hard solder, a solder which fuses only at a red heat, as one composed of zinc and copper, or silver and copper, etc. -- Soft solder, a solder fusible at comparatively low temperatures; as, plumbers' solder, consisting of two parts lead and one part tin, is…

d, liquid, or gaseous) is absorbed into a liquid, and, remaining or becoming fluid, is diffused throughout the solvent; also, the product reulting from such absorption.

Meanly avaricious; covetous; niggardly. He may be old, And yet sordid, who refuses gold. Sir J. Denham.

To reduce to order from a confused state. Hooker.

A mass, or heap, confusedly mingled. [Prov. Eng.]

The lock of a fusee or carbine; also, the fusee or carbine itself. [Obs.]

To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious. I, who at some times spend, at others spare, Divided between carelessness and care. Pope.

Resembling spar, or consisting of spar; abounding with spar; having a confused crystalline structure; spathose. Sparry iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a). -- Sparry limestone (Min.), a coarsely crystalline marble.

To be diffused; to spread. The vines that they use for wine are so often cut, that their sap spendeth into the grapes. Bacon.

One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.

Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

The fusee of a watch.

A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.