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, often globe-shaped, provided with a stopcock for the separate drawing off of immiscible liquids of different specific gravities.

ar of dregs and impurities by causing them to sink; to render pure or clear; -- said of a liquid; as, to settle coffee, or the grounds of coffee.

or process of adjusting or determining; composure of doubts or differences; pacification; liquidation of accounts; arrangement; adjustment; as, settlement of a controversy, of accounts, etc.

A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market.

The contents of a sewer or drain; refuse liquids or matter carried off by sewers

An ancient Roman liquid and dry measure, about equal to an English pint.

lead forms spherical drops which cool in the descent, and are received in water or other liquid. -- Shot window, a window projecting from the wall. Ritson, quoted by Halliwell, explains it as a window that opens and shuts; and Wodrow describes it as a window of shutters made of timber and a few inches of glass above…

are united by welding. Cold shut, the imperfection in a casting caused by the flowing of liquid metal upon partially chilled metal; also, the imperfect weld in a forging caused by the inadequate heat of one surface under working.

To cause to boil gently; to cook in liquid heated almost or just to the boiling point.

mbibe in small quantities; especially, to take in with the lips in small quantities, as a liquid; as, to sip tea. "Every herb that sips the dew." Milton.

g of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an intermediate elevation, by the action of the pressure of the atmosphere in forcing the liquid up the shorter branch of the pipe immersed in it, whi…

A thick and viscid liquid made from the juice of fruits, herbs, etc., boiled with sugar.

To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.

One who, or that which, skims; esp., a utensil with which liquids are skimmed.

That which is skimmed from the surface of a liquid; -- chiefly used in the plural; as, the skimmings of broth.

A vessel made of skin, used for holding liquids. See Bottle, 1. "Skins of wine." Tennyson.

hitis and allied genera. They have two glands near the anus, secreting an extremely fetid liquid, which the animal ejects at pleasure as a means of defense.

To let saliva or some liquid fall from the mouth carelessly, like a child or an idiot; to drivel; to drool. [Written also slaver, and slobber.]

Potter's clay in a very liquid state, used for the decoration of ceramic ware, and also as a cement for handless and other applied parts.