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A covered pot im which coffee is prepared,

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. Homans.

sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. Dryden.

To prepare or treat with collodion. R. Hunt.

ich have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

To prepare from crude materials, as food; to invent or prepare by combining different ingredients; as, to concoct a new dish or beverage.

ncocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

To prepare, as sweetmeats; to make a confection of. [Obs.] Saffron confected in Cilicia. W. Browne.

Prepared as a confection. The biscuit or confectionary plum. Cowper.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

To prepare with sugar, etc., for the purpose of preservation, as fruits, etc.; to make a conserve of.

One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

da and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

e; solicitation of woman to marriage. This method of courtship, [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith.

To spread a table for a meal; to prepare a banquet. [Obs.] Shak.

One who crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an exxamination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. Dickens.

pencil of carbon used in producing electric light. Crayon board, cardboard with a surface prepared for crayon drawing. -- Crayon drawing, the act or art of drawing with crayons; a drawing made with crayons.

A delicacy of several kinds prepared for the table from cream, etc., or so as to resemble cream.

Tin ore prepared for smelting.