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The art of moving the hands in oratory or in pantomime; gesture [Obs.]

An andiron with a knob at the top. Bacon.

See Cramp, n., 2.

about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

Act of environing; state of being environed.

s or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.

An iron with a flat, smooth surface for ironing clothes.

of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.

A grated iron utensil for broiling flesh and fish over coals.

A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass.

See Andrion. [Obs.]

A harpoon. Evelyn.

Same as Lofter.

A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

An iron for smoothing clothes; a flatiron.

A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also spe…

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See T iron, under T.

Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to have been introduced by him into ancient Rome.

See Tuyère.