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coria or slag; specifically, in assaying, to fuse so as to separate the gangue and earthy material, with borax, lead, soda, etc., thus leaving the gold and silver in a lead button; hence, to separate from, or by means of, a slag.

d off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. I have no materials -- not a scrap. De Quincey.

s works of sculpture, his first studies and his finished model being usually in a plastic material, from which model the marble is cut, or the bronze is cast.

other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, whether in plastic or hard materials.

A compound of the resinous materials, pigments, etc., used as a material for seals, as for letters, documents, etc.

; the pelt of a seal prepared for use, esp. of the fur seal; also, a garment made of this material.

The act of making seats; also, the material for making seats; as, cane seating.

The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hen…

The material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

The act of depositing a sediment; specifically (Geol.), the deposition of the material of which sedimentary rocks are formed.

ction; agreeable or disagreeable feelings occasioned by objects that are not corporeal or material.

The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescent material into the blood.

oisoned condition of the blood produced by the absorption into it of septic or putrescent material; blood poisoning. It is marked by chills, fever, prostration, and inflammation of the different serous membranes and of the lungs, kidneys, and other organs.

A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes. Silk serge, a twilled silk fabric used mostly by tailors for lining parts of gentlemen's coats.

A gelatinous nitrogenous material extracted from crude silk and other similar fiber by boiling water; -- called also silk gelatin.

The materials used for serving a rope, etc., as spun yarn, small lines, etc.

e yielding of the ground under the foundation, or by the compression of the joints or the material. (b) pl.

The material collected in, and discharged by, sewers. [In this sense sewage is preferable and common.]

ment. Nothing makes men sharper . . . than want. Addison. Many other things belong to the material world, wherein the sharpest philosophers have never yeL. Watts.

blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances. Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain. Pope.