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One whose business it is to cary a chair or sedan. Breaks watchmen's heads and chairmen's glasses. Prior.

A horse; hence, a support or frame. Cheval glass, a mirror swinging in a frame, and large enough to reflect the full leght figure.

A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.

um. -- Chrome green (a) The green oxide of chromium, Cr2O3, used in enamel painting, and glass staining. (b) A pigment made by mixing chrome yellow with Prussian blue. -- Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Chrome yellow, a…

Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis.

To tie or bind together. The pieces of isinglass are colligated in rows. Nicholson.

or geodetic instrument, or the line which passes through the optical center of the object glass and the intersection of the cross wires at its focus.

ffered to cool, there is generated, by the colliquation, that sort of concretion we call "glass". Boyle.

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. Glass, crystal, gems, and other compact bodies. Sir I. Newton.

the ship's head. The card is divided into thirty-two points, called also rhumbs, and the glass-covered box or bowl containing it is suspended in gimbals within the binnacle, in order to preserve its horizontal position. -- Surveyor's compass, an instrument used in surveying for measuring horizontal angles. See Circum…

An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium.

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

or junction of two bodies. [Obs.] The drop will begin to move toward the concourse of the glasses. Sir I. Newton.

A flexible tube for connecting the ends of glass tubes in pneumatic experiments.

of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

ating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

A condition produced in certain porcelain, fine earthenware, or glass, in which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

am has been added. -- Cream gauge, an instrument to test milk, being usually a graduated glass tube in which the milk is placed for the cream to rise. -- Cream nut, the Brazil nut. -- Cream of lime. (a) A scum of calcium carbonate which forms on a solution of milk of lime from the carbon dioxide of the air. (b) A th…

A winding or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker.