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; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.…

To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire. Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assu…

aracteristics of the stars and other heavenly bodies, their chemical constitution, light, heat, atmospheres, etc.

ce, formerly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

Of or pertaining to atmology. "Atmological laws of heat." Whewell.

The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

of pipes set in the fire box of a stove or furnace, through which water circulates and is heated.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

A box of the lowest tier in a theater. Du Maurier.

A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

ont of a window. Also, a projecting gallery in places of amusement; as, the balcony in a theater.

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.