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Prepared for battle; combatant; warlike. Spenser. -- n.

Cotton in sheets, prepared for use in making quilts, etc.; as, cotton batting.

Any large piece of timber or iron long in proportion to its thickness, and prepared for use.

A rich, white sauce, prepared with butter and cream.

To dress or prepare the surface of stone) so as to serve as a bed.

obtained from the outer bark of the common European birch (Betula alba), or from the tar prepared therefrom; -- called also birch camphor. Watts.

Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; -- called also blue bice. Green bice is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

metimes of the imitation) Russia leather, to which it gives its peculiar odor. (b) An oil prepared from the black birch (B. lenta), said to be identical with the oil of wintergreen, for which it is largely sold.

hip biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. Gibbon.

Any process in which advantage is taken of the fact that prepared bitumen is rendered insoluble by exposure to light, as in photolithography.

To prepare, treat, impregnate, or coat with bitumen.

e black, a pigment of a blue black color. -- Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. -- Berlin black. See under Berlin.

The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.

on of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. -- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass. -- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great am…

the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them. You must prepare your bosom for his knife. Shak.

Ready; prepared; destined; tending. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, the act or process of separating and distributing the fur or hair by means of a bow, to prepare it for felting.

To make ready; to prepare; to dress. [Obs.] We will all bowne ourselves for the banquet. Sir W. Scott.