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A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

e; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench.

d, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.

my by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

ch as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, "primage and average accustomed," average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were…

sed from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake I stood. Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. He was awake to the danger. Froude.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

n either side; as, the balance of an account. " A balance at the banker's. " Thackeray. I still think the balance of probabilities leans towards the account given in the text. J. Peile.

To stop abruptly and stand still obstinately; to jib; to stop short; to swerve; as, the horse balks.

A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

of Christianity, the plan of which was taken from the basilica of the Romans. The name is still applied to some churches by way of honorary distinction.

Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters.

any one) to secure a lower price; to force down. [Colloq.] -- To beat into, to teach or instill, by repetition. -- To beat off, to repel or drive back. -- To beat out, to extend by hammering. -- To beat out of a thing, to cause to relinquish it, or give it up. "Nor can anything beat their posterity out of it to this…

To render calm or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.

it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.

Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland.

le, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benzene nucl…