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A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. Woodward.

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

t of a limb, while extension is practiced on the lower part, as in cases of luxation or fracture. -- Counter fissure (Surg.) Same as Contrafissure. -- Counter indication. (Med.) Same as Contraindication. -- Counter irritant (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some pa…

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.

Brittle; friable; in a condition to break with a short, sharp fracture; as, crisp snow. The cakes at tea ate short and crisp. Goldsmith.

re clay and sand, and commonly used for a single heating; -- named from the place of manufacture.

A species of glass, more perfect in its composition and manufacture than common glass, and often cut into ornamental forms. See Flint glass.

iest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

Pertaining to, or originating at, the city of Damascus; resembling the products or manufactures of Damascus.

as iron, steel, etc., with a peculiar marking or "water" produced in the process of manufacture, or with designs produced by inlaying or incrusting with another metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.…

To do a distributing or retailing business, as distinguished from that of a manufacturer or producer; to traffic; to trade; to do business; as, he deals in flour. They buy and sell, they deal and traffic. South. This is to drive to wholesale trade, when all other petty merchants deal but for parcels. Dr. H. More.…

ts their soluble albuminoids. It was formerly solely a by-product of chamois leather manufacture, but is now made for its own sake, being valuable as a dressing for hides.

A forcible of bones without fracture.

, called also Nordhausen acid (from Nordhausen in the Harts, where it was originally manufactured), fuming sulphuric acid, and especially pyrosulphuric acid. See under Pyrosulphuric.

Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

Doornick), Belgium, and used for hangings, carpets, etc. Also, a stout figured linen manufactured in Scotland. [Formerly written also darnex, dornic, dorneck, etc.] Halliwell. Jamieson.

A kind of manstopping bullet; -- so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.

In modern manufacture, a worsted of one color used for window blinds and similar purposes.

Without luster, or dull and roughish to the touch; as, an earthy fracture.

. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of varnishes, also in ointments and plasters.