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A kind of dynamite used in blasting. [U.S.]

les in rock; esp., a machine impelled by steam or compressed air, for drilling holes for blasting, etc. -- Rock duck (Zoöl.), the harlequin duck. -- Rock eel. (Zoöl.) See Gunnel. -- Rock goat (Zoöl.), a wild goat, or ibex. -- Rock hopper (Zoöl.), a penguin of the genus Catarractes. See under Penguin. -- Rock kanga…

hment, paper, or other materials which may be rolled up; a scroll. Busy angels spread The lasting roll, recording what we say. Prior.

from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10.

glossy surface. Cloths of gold and satins rich of hue. Chaucer. Denmark satin, a kind of lasting; a stout worsted stuff, woven with a satin twill, used for women's shoes. -- Farmer's satin. See under Farmer. -- Satin bird (Zoöl.), an Australian bower bird. Called also satin grackle. -- Satin flower (Bot.) See Hones…

Aid; assistance; help. [Obs.] Give second, and my love Is everlasting thine. J. Fletcher.

Of neverending duration; everlasting; endless; having beginning, but no end. Sir M. Hale.

Lasting seven years; continuing seven years. "Septenary penance." Fuller.

Lasting or continuing seven years; as, septennial parliaments.

fixed or permanent; to become stationary; to establish one's self or itself; to assume a lasting form, condition, direction, or the like, in place of a temporary or changing state. The wind came about and settled in the west. Bacon. Chyle . . . runs through all the intermediate colors until it settles in an intense re…

Lasting six years, or happening once in six years. -- n.

Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.

oach or disgrace; a stigma; a reproachful intimation; an innuendo. "Gaining to his name a lasting slur." South.

A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

Not transitory; not liable to fade or vanish; lasting; as, a standing color.

To ram, as clay, into a blasting hole.

ng or printing; a line; the touch of a pen or pencil; as, an up stroke; a firm stroke. O, lasting as those colors may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line. Pope.

A puddle or dirty pool. [Prov. Eng.] Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water. -- Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine.

he most forcible motive to a good life, because taken from this consideration of the most lasting happiness and misery. Tillotson.