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A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.

A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

ction powder, Friction composition, a composition of chlorate of potassium, antimony, sulphide, etc, which readily ignites by friction. -- Friction primer, Friction tube, a tube used for firing cannon by means of the friction of a roughened wire in the friction powder or composition with which the tube is filled -- Fr…

f praise; as, fulsome flattery. And lest the fulsome artifice should fail Themselves will hide its coarseness with a veil. Cowper.

Loud or rapid talk without meaning. Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders. Milton.

Lead sulphide; the principal ore of lead. It is of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. False galena. See Blende.

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

In a gentle manner. My mistress gently chides the fault I made. Dryden.

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt. -- Glance copper, c -- Glance wood, a hard wood grown in Cuba, and u…

stis Canadensis), with a thick knotted rootstock and large rounded leaves. -- Golden sulphide, or sulphuret, of antimony (Chem.), the pentasulphide of antimony, a golden or orange yellow powder. -- Golden warbler (Zoöl.), a common American wood warbler (Dendroica æstiva); -- called also blue-eyed yellow warbler, gard…

colors, dyes made from the coccus or kermes in sect. -- Grain leather. (a) Dressed horse hides. (b) Goat, seal, and other skins blacked on the grain side for women's shoes, etc. -- Grain moth (Zoöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grai…

Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.

, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison.

Grim; hideous; stern. [R.] In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. D. Mallet.

Native sulphide of manganese a reddish brown or brownish black mineral.

To hide; to cover; to roof. [Obs.] Hide and hele things. Chaucer.

ith carbonates of the alkalies (esp. potassium), and consists essentially of alkaline sulphides. Called also hepar sulphuris (.

imp. & p. p. of Hide. See Hidden.