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A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

The extraneous matter or impurities which rise to the surface of liquids in boiling or fermentation, or which form on the surface by other means; also, the scoria of metals in a molten state; dross. Some to remove the scum it did rise. Spenser.

A squid of the genus Ommastrephes. See Squid.

Any large cephalopod, as a large Octopus, or a giant squid (Architeuthis). See Devilfish.

The clusters of gelatinous egg capsules of a squid (Loligo).

to a pipe, by which the open end of the pipe dips beneath the surface of water or other liquid, or a deep bend or sag in the pipe is filled with the liquid; a draintrap. Great seal. See under Great. -- Privy seal. See under Privy, a. -- Seal lock, a lock in which the keyhole is covered by a seal in such a way that th…

The matter which subsides to the bottom, frrom water or any other liquid; settlings; lees; dregs.

To decoct or prepare for food in hot liquid; to boil; as, to seethe flesh. [Written also seeth.] Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets. 2 Kings iv. 38.

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

yellowish fluid which exudes from the clot formed in the coagulation of the blood; the loquid portion of the blood, after removal of the blood corpuscles and the fibrin. -- Muscle serum, the thin watery fluid which separates from the muscles after coagulation of the muscle plasma; the watery portion of the plasma. Se…

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.

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.

ead 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 th…

re 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.

ibe 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.