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A boiling up; effervescence. [Obs.] Boyle.

The operation of steam in a cylinder after its communication with the boiler has been cut off, by which it continues to exert pressure upon the moving piston.

r food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations. If my death might make this island happy . . . I would expend it with all willingness. Shak.

a loud report; to detonate, as a shell filled with powder or the like material, or as a boiler from too great pressure of steam.

nd loud noise, because of internal pressure; as, the explosion of a gun, a bomb, a steam boiler, etc.

he act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.

icy, a policy like that of Fabius Maximus, who, by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

An end of poorer quality, or in a spoiled condition, as the coarser end of a web of cloth, the untwisted end of a rope, ect.

is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.

One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat. [Obs.] The fats shall overflow with wine and oil. Joel ii. 24.

The cause of weariness; labor; toil; as, the fatigues of war. Dryden.

Hence; Richness; fertility; fruitfulness. Rich in the fatness of her plenteous soil. Rowe.

clays. See under Clay. -- Fatty degeneration (Med.), a diseased condition, in which the oil globules, naturally present in certain organs, are so multiplied as gradually to destroy and replace the efficient parts of these organs. -- Fatty heart, Fatty liver, etc. (Med.), a heart, liver, etc., which have been the sub…

A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

o furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.

A device for supplying steam boilers with water as needed.