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t Westminster; -- so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace. Brande & C.

A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened. [U. S.]

A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.

to expend; to waste; to burn up; to eat up; to devour. If he were putting to my house the brand That shall consume it. Shak. Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume. Matt. vi. 20 (Rev. Ver. ). Let me alone . . . that I may consume them. Ex. xxxii. 10.

ndscapes. W. Irwing. Continual proportionals (Math.), quantities in continued proportion. Brande & C.

Small gabions. Brande & C.

, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. Brande & C.

ery one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.

A determination or judgment of an umpire on a case submitted to him. Brande.

with dice. See Die, n. Dice coal, a kind of coal easily splitting into cubical fragments. Brande & C.

; to extract by distillation, as spirits, essential oil, etc.; to rectify; as, to distill brandy from wine; to distill alcoholic spirits from grain; to distill essential oils from flowers, etc.; to distill fresh water from sea water. "Distilling odors on me." Tennyson.

As much spirituous liquor as is usually drunk at once; as, a dram of brandy; hence, a potation or potion; as, a dram of poison. Shak.

ost. Hebert. -- Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetn…

food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain. Brande.

A porpoise. [Scott.] Dunter goose (Zoöl.) the eider duck. J. Brand.

Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust and ashes. See und…

French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitæ, under Aqua. Bescherelle.

s base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale. Lamb.