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ay a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony. And chime their sounding hammers. Dryden.

sing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

Anything resembling the claw of an animal, as the curved and forked end of a hammer for drawing nails.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person.

The hammer in the lock of a firearm. At cock, At full cock, with the hammer raised and ready to fire; -- said of firearms, also, jocularly, of one prepared for instant action. -- At half cock. See under Half. -- Cock feather (Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. Nar…

The thumbpiece of the hammer of a gunlock, by which it may be cocked.

To become less hot; to lose heat. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, the whilst his iron did on the anvil cool. Shak.

A kind of hammer having a head formed of a group of pointed steel bars, used for dressing ashlar, etc. -- v. t.

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion. Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.

Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer (Mach.), a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.

d or ring. To ding (anything) in one's ears, to impress one by noisy repetition, as if by hammering.

fragments or to powder; to break up, or cause to fall to pieces, as a rock, by blows of a hammer, frost, rain, and other mechanical or atmospheric influences. Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. Kirwan.

Having two faces designed for use; as, a double-faced hammer.

The process of stretching or spreading metals as by hammering, or, as in forming wire from rods or tubes and cups from sheet metal, by pulling them through dies.

To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.

A drop press or drop hammer.

An instrument, having stretched metallic wires which are beaten with two light hammers held in the hands of the performer.

.] Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke.

at large or set free. [Archaic] It will enlarge us from all restraints. Barrow. Enlarging hammer, a hammer with a slightly rounded face of large diameter; -- used by gold beaters. Knight. -- To enlarge an order or rule (Law), to extend the time for complying with it. Abbott. -- To enlarge one's self, to give free ven…