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A movable, decorative member in metal, carved wood, or, commonly, in rich stuff or in embroidery, covering the front of the altar. Frontals are usually changed according to the different ceremonies.

Plump; chubby; short and stuffy; as a fubsy sofa. [Eng.] A fubsy, good-humored, silly . . . old maid. Mme. D'Arblay.

Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline.

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; -- often an exclamation of contempt.

A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc.

A red crystalline dyestuff, obtained by heating together pyrogallic and phthalic acids.

A defensive garment formerly in use for the body, made of cloth stuffed and quilted.

c. -- Gauge saw, a handsaw, 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 instrumen…

t to an exact size and shape, for arches or ornamental work. -- Gauged mortar. See Gauge stuff, under Gauge, n.

A very thin, slight, transparent stuff, generally of silk; also, any fabric resembling silk gauze; as, wire gauze; cotton gauze. Gauze dresser, one employed in stiffening gauze.

Goods; property; household stuff. Chaucer. Homely gear and common ware. Robynson (More's Utopia)

sarsaparilla, a substitute for sarsaparilla extract. -- German sausage, a polony, or gut stuffed with meat partly cooked. -- German silver (Chem.), a silver-white alloy, hard and tough, but malleable and ductile, and quite permanent in the air. It contains nickel, copper, and zinc in varying proportions, and was orig…

The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.

The refuse thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C.

Any very thin gauzelike fabric; also, a thin waterproof stuff.

lly of a basic hydrate of chromium. -- Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff, obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow luster; -- called also light-green. -- Mineral green. See under Mineral. -- Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a. -- Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous gre…

A trade name for a dyestuff, consisting essentially of impure fuchsine.

A coarse stuff made of silk and mohair, or of coarse silk.

Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.