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Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

To flood; to overflow; to cover with water. Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands. Dryden.

Tending to move away from a center, rather than remain in a compact group; -- used of hair or clothing or of small particles of matter. Light objects or particles readily taking a static electric charge may be moved apart by acquisition of a charge, or by approach of a charged object. Such a property is called flyawa…

A compact form of hydro-aëroplane having one central body, or hull.

ted up for transporting a blackmith's forge and tools. -- Portable forge, a light and compact blacksmith's forge, with bellows, etc., that may be moved from place to place.

The texture of a freshly broken surface; as, a compact fracture; an even, hackly, or conchoidal fracture. Comminuted fracture (Surg.), a fracture in which the bone is broken into several parts. -- Complicated fracture (Surg.), a fracture of the bone combined with the lesion of some artery, nervous trunk, or joint. --…

To thicken by moistening, heating, and pressing, as cloth; to mill; to make compact; to scour, cleanse, and thicken in a mill.

al rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Written also camboge.]

ndsaw, with a gauge to regulate the depth of cut. Knight. -- Gauge stuff, a stiff and compact plaster, used in making cornices, moldings, etc., by means of a templet. -- Gauge wheel, a wheel at the forward end of a plow beam, to determine the depth of the furrow. -- Joiner's gauge, an instrument used to strike a lin…

A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

asily penetrated, cut, or separated into parts; not yielding to pressure; firm; solid; compact; -- applied to material bodies, and opposed to soft; as, hard wood; hard flesh; a hard apple.

A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.

Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; made obstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.

Strong; firm; compact. [A] blast may shake in pieces his hardy fabric. South.

A dense, compact mass of leaves, as in a cabbage or a lettuce plant.

To form a compact center or heart; as, a hearting cabbage.

In California, a water wheel with radial buckets, driven by the impact of a jet.

An instrument to measure the velocity of a liquid current by the force of its impact.

and expressing the ideal. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet Are of imagination all compact . . . The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven, And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothi…