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"metal" (melted glass), and through which he blows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, and blowpipe.

gus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. Brande & C. -- Blue Monday, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). -- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment. -- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a si…

A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [Obs.] The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham.

Retinue; attendance; following. Bp. Porteus.

vented by a Frenchman of the name of Bonnaz. The work is done either in freehand or by following a perforated design.

A large, heavy harrow for breaking clods after plowing; a drag.

A braid. [R.] Half lapped in glowing gauze and golden brede. Tennyson.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. Into a gradual calm the breezes sink. Wordsworth.

Full to the brim; overflowing.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

e species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [Eng.]

raving, pressing, etc.; also, the rough neck left on a bullet in casting. The graver, in plowing furrows in the surface of the copper, raises corresponding ridges or burrs. Tomlinson.

A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horus, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari. [U. S.]

Of or pertaining to Calvin, or Calvinism; following Calvin; accepting or Teaching Calvinism. "Calvinistic training." Lowell.

ten used in attics or garrets, in which the side walls are inclined inward at the top, following the slope of the rafters, to meet the plane surface of the upper ceiling. -- Camp chair, a light chair that can be folded up compactly for easy transportation; the seat and back are often made of strips or pieces of carpet…

Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat. "A candent vessel." Boyle.

Glowing; luminous; incandescent.

-- Canon law. See under Law. -- Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes. -- Honorary canon, a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours. -- Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a…

The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.…