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To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate, as timber, railroad ties, etc.

shaped like cogwheels (wheel ore), also massive. It is a sulphide of antimony, lead, and copper.

ively; to extend one's discourse to other topics than the main one; also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. Spectator.

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes contains tin, and rarely other metals.

To solder with hard solder, esp. with an alloy of copper and zinc; as, to braze the seams of a copper pipe.

A copier of a manuscript.

A white-metal alloy of tin, antimony, bismuth, copper, etc. It somewhat resembles silver, and isused for table ware. Called also Britannia metal.

A basic sulphate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

An alloy of copper and tin, to which small proportions of other metals, especially zinc, are sometimes added. It is hard and sonorous, and is used for statues, bells, cannon, etc., the proportions of the ingredients being varied to suit the particular purposes. The varieties containing the higher proportions of tin are…

A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be used for guns.

Heavy waste in tin and copper ores. To sit on brood, to ponder. [Poetic] Shak.

ng twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep with when bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe, which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches, mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers. No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.

below. Brownian movement, the peculiar, rapid, vibratory movement exhibited by the microscopic particles of substances when suspended in water or other fluids.

A concave tool used in grinding lenses or the speculums of telescopes. Knight.

An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed.

Brush; a thicket or coppice of small trees and shrubs.

To copulate, as bucks and does.

of several species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.

ed the lord mayor of London in his inaugural procession. -- Budge barrel (Mil.), a small copper-hooped barrel with only one head, the other end being closed by a piece of leather, which is drawn together with strings like a purse. It is used for carrying powder from the magazine to the battery, in siege or seacoast se…

A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.