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id (Chem.), hydrochloric acid. -- Salt block, an apparatus for evaporating brine; a salt factory. Knight. -- Salt bottom, a flat piece of ground covered with saline efforescences. [Western U.S.] bartlett. -- Salt cake (Chem.), the white caked mass, consisting of sodium sulphate, which is obtained as the product of t…

Satisfactory. [Obs.] Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne.

So as to satisfy; satisfactorily.

To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does. Methinks I scent the morning air. Shak.

To begin, as a new institution; to institute; to establish; to found; as, to set up a manufactory; to set up a school. (d) To enable to commence a new business; as, to set up a son in trade. (e) To place in view; as, to set up a mark. (f) To raise; to utter loudly; as, to set up the voice. I'll set up such a note as sh…

Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.

of a blast furnace. Line shaft (Mach.), a main shaft of considerable length, in a shop or factory, usually bearing a number of pulleys by which machines are driven, commonly by means of countershafts; -- called also line, or main line. -- Shaft alley (Naut.), a passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and…

One who works in a shop or a factory.

A basket on wheels, used in cotton factories.

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate materials or qualities; to obtain the scent of; as, to smell a rose; to smell perfumes.

an oval or sherical head surmounting a short pedicel. It is generally supposed to be an olfactory organ.

ucture, or upright pipe, which affords a conduit for smoke; as, the brick smokestack of a factory; the smokestack of a steam vessel. (Computer programming)

n distinction from a portable engine, locomotive, marine engine, etc. Specifically: (b) A factory engine, in distinction from a blowing, pumping, or other kind of engine which is also permanently placed.

ny important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty. One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting foe. Burke.

A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.

or indicating or recording something, particularly for keeping a check upon employees, as factory hands, watchmen, drivers, check takers, and the like, by revealing to their employers what they have done or omitted.

had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.

One who takes care of, or tends, machines in a factory; a kind of assistant foreman.

well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. Milton.

ird person; -- called, in some States, the process of foreign attachment, garnishment, or factorizing process. [U. S.]