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ire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness; matter deposited by smoke. [R.]

e so far that it will not remain suspended as vapor in the blast current, but will be deposited as snow in the cooling apparatus. The resultant uniformly dehydrated blast effects great economy in fuel consumption, and promotes regularity of furnace operation, and certainty of furnace control.

A loose hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

A farmhouse of a monastery, where the rents and tithes, paid in grain, were deposited. [Obs.]

A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem. Heyse.

The place in a barn where hay is deposited.

ery respect. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- On high, aloft; above. The dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. -- The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.

A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak.

of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.

A place where rubbish, dung, etc., are laid or deposited.[Obs.] B. Jonson. Smithfield was a laystall of all ordure and filth. Bacon.

cker, or Davy's locker. See Davy Jones. -- Shot locker, a compartment where shot are deposited. Totten.

t the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond.

An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

ublic institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged; -- called also mont de piété.

A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.

A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margi…