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Formed of ether; ethereal. [Obs.] This ethereous mold whereon we stand. Milton.

A powdered substance, as charcoal, bituminous coal, ect., applied to the face of a mold, or mixed with the sand that forms it, to give a fine smooth surface to the casting.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. Gay. Ingenious art . . . Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. Cowper.

for feeding water by gravity to a steam boiler. (b) (Founding) An excess of metal above a mold, which serves to render the casting more compact by its pressure; -- also called a riser, deadhead, or simply feed or head Knight. -- Feed heater. (a) (Steam Engine) A vessel in which the feed water for the boiler is heated,…

Corrupted; decayed; moldy. See Vinnewed. [Obs.] Dr. Favour.

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material. Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. Bacon. The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. C. Wordsworth. Fictile ware, ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery…

Made of potter's clay; molded; shaped. [R.] Johnson.

To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.

A narrow flat member; especially, a flat molding separating other moldings; a reglet; also, the space between two flutings in a shaft. See Illust. of Base, and Column.

Moldiness. [R.]

The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc. Erlenmey…

Capable or being adapted or molded; plastic,; as, a flexible language. This was a principle more flexible to their purpose. Rogers.

kind of soft sweetmeat made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes. This may prove food to my displeasure. Shak. In this moment there is life and food For future years. Wordsworth.

That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.

A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines." Milton.

er's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

als. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.