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To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

An imposition; a cheat; a hoax. Garrick. To relieve the tediumbams. Prof. Wilson.

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

d of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

An itinerant theatrical player who plays in barns when a theatre is lacking; hence, an inferior actor, or one who plays in the country away from the larger cities. --Barn"storm`ing, n. [Theatrical Cant]

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.

ion of aluminium and alumina, and for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

which has been obtained from sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

1. (Zoöl.) (a) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds. (b) A similar bill in other animals, as the turtles. (c) The long projecting sucking mouth of some insects, an…

lass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight.

of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat. How far that little candle throws his beams ! Shak.

A trailing plant of the heath family (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi), having leaves which are tonic and astringent, and glossy red berries of which bears are said to be fond.

Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat.

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; -- often with out. [Colloq.]

To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [Obs.] Spenser.

The title of a heathen deity to whom the Jews ascribed the sovereignty of the evil spirits; hence, the Devil or a devil. See Baal.

the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed. In the heat of persecution to which Christian belief was subject upon its first promulgation. Hooker. Ultimate belief, a first principle incapable of proof; an intuitive truth; an intuition. Sir W. Hamilton.