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To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

A heavy green oil (partially solidifying on cooling), which distills over from coal tar at a temperature above 270º. It is the principal source of anthracene.

Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

rly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook.

y ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements. Ataxic fever, malignant typhus fever. Pinel.

hat which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach. Cooley.

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana. [Written also avocette.]

ough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash. -- Water back, a c…

A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.] The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.

A small cooper coin formerly current in the Roman States, worth about a cent and a half.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

hite spot on the head; bald-faced. Bald buzzard (Zoöl.), the fishhawk or osprey. -- Bald coot (Zoöl.), a name of the European coot (Fulica atra), alluding to the bare patch on the front of the head.

licum), and the bush basil, or lesser basil (O. minimum), the leaves of which are used in cookery. The name is also given to several kinds of mountain mint (Pycnanthemum). Basil thyme, a name given to the fragrant herbs Calamintha Acinos and C. Nepeta. -- Wild basil, a plant (Calamintha clinopodium) of the Mint family…

mixture of several ingredients, as, flour, eggs, milk, etc. , beaten together and used in cookery. King.

m the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper. Cooley. Brande & C.

To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness. "As pigeons bill." Shak. To bill and coo, to interchange caresses; -- said of doves; also of demonstrative lovers. Thackeray.