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Not firmly woven; that ravels. [Written also fozy.] [Prov. Eng.]

An oblong oven or muffle with a battery of retorts; a gallery furnace.

ton or linen cloth, usually in stripes or checks, the yarn of which is dyed before it is woven; -- distinguished from printed cotton or prints.

A glazing oven. See Glost oven.

In gunpowder manufacture, the drying oven.

t is common in marshy places in the United States. -- Gold tissue, a tissue fabric interwoven with gold thread. -- Gold tooling, the fixing of gold leaf by a hot tool upon book covers, or the ornamental impression so made. -- Gold washings, places where gold found in gravel is separated from lighter material by wash…

grees or to a certain degree; to determine the degrees of; as, to graduate the heat of an oven. Dyers advance and graduate their colors with salts. Browne.

Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the…

To make hot; to communicate heat to, or cause to grow warm; as, to heat an oven or furnace, an iron, or the like. Heat me these irons hot. Shak.

owers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.

o follow hard: as, hungry want is at my heels. Otway. -- To be down at the heel, to be slovenly or in a poor plight. -- To be out at the heels, to have on stockings that are worn out; hence, to be shabby, or in a poor plight. Shak. -- To cool the heels. See under Cool. -- To go heels over head, to turn over so as t…

Pertaining to, or suited for, a hermit. Coventry.

A thin silk or woolen goods, for women's dresses, woven in various styles and colors.

A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit. Humboldt.

One who deals in hose or stocking, or in goods knit or woven like hose.

Stockings, in general; goods knit or woven like hose.

Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings.

Unconcernedness; incuriosity. Sordid incuriousness and slovenly neglect. Bp. Hall.

To contract; to bargain or covenant. Shak. To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty. South.

issolved; perpetually binding or obligatory; firm; stable, as, an indissoluble league or covenant. To the which my duties Are with a most indissoluble tie Forever knit. Shak.