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ting furnace where the materials are put in. -- Tunnel kiln, a limekiln in which coal is burned, as distinguished from a flame kiln, in which wood or peat is used. -- Tunnel net, a net with a wide mouth at one end and narrow at the other. -- Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft, a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to…

ays with that ivy." Waller. There are pillars of smoke twisted about wreaths of flame. T. Burnet.

ral clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

A lubricant or salve for sores, burns, or the like; an ointment. Cowper.

e of the Fahrenheit scale. Rankine. -- Unit of illumination, the light of a sperm candle burning 120 grains per hour. Standard gas, burning at the rate of five cubic feet per hour, must have an illuminating power equal to that of fourteen such candles. -- Unit of measure (as of length, surface, volume, dry measure, l…

deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. T. Burnet.

To reverse or annul by vote, as a former vote. [R.] Bp, Burnet.

e of completion; completely; wholly; quite; as, in the phrases to eat up; to drink up; to burn up; to sum up; etc.; to shut up the eyes or the mouth; to sew up a rent.

n pot, in which there was another urn. Bp. Wilkins. His scattered limbs with my dead body burn, And once more join us in the pious urn. Dryden.

se characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.

The act of burning, or the state of being burned. [R.] Johnson.

Having the quality of burning. [R.] I. Watts.

Blackened as if burned.

The act of burning or searing. [R.] Sir W. Petty.

gether and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.

eric pressure and hence also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process. -- Vacuum pump. Same as Pulsometer, 1. -- Vacuum tube (Phys.), a glass tube provided with platinum electrodes and exhausted, for the passage of the electrical discharge; a Geissler tu…

regard. Dryden. My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great Bp. Burnet.

A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

liquid, by which the temperature may be limited exactly to the required degree. -- Vapor burner, a burner for burning a vaporized hydrocarbon. -- Vapor density (Chem.), the relative weight of gases and vapors as compared with some specific standard, usually hydrogen, but sometimes air. The vapor density of gases and…