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ture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a…

argument. I. Watts. By a miserable subterfuge, they hope to render this position safe by rendering it nugatory. Burke.

The act of surrendering; the act of yielding, or resigning one's person, or the possession of something, into the power of another; as, the surrender of a castle to an enemy; the surrender of a right. That he may secure some liberty he makes a surrender in trust of the whole of it. Burke.

A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

The act of rendering into another language; interpretation; as, the translation of idioms is difficult.

A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible.

The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.

The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

A substance or preparation for rendering cloth, leather, etc., impervious to water.

eather helm (Naut.), a tendency on the part of a sailing vessel to come up into the wind, rendering it necessary to put the helm up, that is, toward the weather side. -- Weather shore (Naut.), the shore to the windward of a ship. Totten. -- Weather tide (Naut.), the tide which sets against the lee side of a ship, imp…