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f That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

er betle), the leaves of which are chewed, with the areca or betel nut and a little shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. Meat biscuit, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits.

amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap. -- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitum…

A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer. Ure.

e air and light, of chlorine, or of sulphurous acid. Ure. Immortal liberty, whose look sublime Hath bleached the tyrant's cheek in every varying clime. Smollett.

chemical agents. Ure. Bleaching powder, a powder for bleaching, consisting of chloride of lime, or some other chemical or chemicals.

fine quality, made in Bohemia. It is of variable composition, containing usually silica, lime, and potash, rarely soda, but no lead. It is often remarkable for beauty of color.

ixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off.

A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.

Any bivalve mollusk (Saxicava, Lithodomus, etc.) which bores into limestone and similar substances.

A thin bed of coal mixed with pyrites or carbonate of lime.

. -- Bristol stone, rock crystal, or brilliant crystals of quartz, found in the mountain limestone near Bristol, and used in making ornaments, vases, etc. When polished, it is called Bristol diamond.

Cross; coarse; indelicate; as, a broad compliment; a broad joke; broad humor.

Aliment; food. Dunglison.

The science of aliments. Dunglison.

A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witherite and strontianite; -- called also alstonite.

to burn clay in making bricks or pottery; to burn wood so as to produce charcoal; to burn limestone for the lime.