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d as a soft white crystalline metal, malleable at ordinary temperatures, but brittle when heated. It is not easily oxidized in the air, and is used chiefly to coat iron to protect it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and…

ated as an infusible iron- gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

ndured; supportable, either physically or mentally. As may affect tionearth with cold and heat Scarce tolerable. Milton.

ength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. (Med.) See the Note under Spasm.

motion, or the power of exertion and feeling; numb; benumbed; as, a torpid limb. Without heat all things would be torpid. Ray.

To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.

Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton.

An unleavened cake, as of maize flour, baked on a heated iron or stone.

Pervious to, or permitting the passage of, heat.

and that Eusebian book of evangelic preparation, transmitting our ears through a hoard of heathenish obscenities to receive the gospel. Milton. The scepter of that kingdom continued to be transmitted in the dynasty of Castile. Prescott.

able disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.

ank. Shak. This weak impress of love is as a figure Trenched in ice, which with an hour's heat Dissolves to water, and doth lose its form. Shak.

the tropics; being within the tropics; as, tropical climate; tropical latitudes; tropical heat; tropical diseases.

To experience; to have or gain knowledge of by experience. Milton. Or try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold. Dryden.

amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.

rtain natural 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.

; rare; hence, remarkable; strange; as, an uncommon season; an uncommon degree of cold or heat; uncommon courage.

Not persuaded of the truth of the Christian religion; heathenish. Hooker.

hereal undulations is applicable not only to the phenomena of light, but also to those of heat.