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An iron bar, with the end bent, used in stirring or skimming molten iron in the process of puddling.

By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore a…

The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

Finely; excellently; with rare skill. See 3d Rare, 2. The person who played so rarely on the flageolet. Sir W. Scott. The rest of the spartments are rarely gilded. Evelyn.

Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

To ascend or mount again; to reach by ascending again. He mounts aloft, and reascends the skies. Addison.

A common appellation for a North American Indian; -- so called from the color of the skin. Cooper.

A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

To meet unexpectedly; to encounter in a hostile manner; to come in collision; to skirmish.

To sew together so that the seam is scarcely visible; to sew up with skill and nicety; to finedraw.

gh. We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries. Milton.

Armed with a net; hence, skillful to entangle. Scholastic retiary versatility of logic. Coleridge.

A call sounded on a bugle, announcing to skirmishers that they are to retire, or fall back.

ide down; to invert. A pyramid reversed may stand upon his point if balanced by admirable skill. Sir W. Temple.

The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.

One skilled in rhinology.

A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat. J. V. Shoemaker.

A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. Ricochet firing (Mil.), the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bo…

The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.

A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceeding a fever. Rigor caloris ( Etym: [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50ºC. -- Rigor mortis ( Etym: [L. , rigor of death]…