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ong in fusion, the mixture casts up the superfluous salt, which the workmen take off with ladles. Boyle.

A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.

Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out water.

One who, or that which, dips; especially, a vessel used to dip water or other liquid; a ladle.

The act of lifting or moving a liquid with a dipper, ladle, or the like.

The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.

To throw in out. with a ladle or dipper; to dip; as, to lade water out of a tub, or into a cistern. And chides the sea that sunders him from thence, Saying, he'll lade it dry to have his way. Shak.

A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

A large ladle; a vessel with a long handle, used for dipping liquids; a utensil for bailing boats.

A large ladle for molten metal, fitted with long bars for handling it.

for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle.

The scoria on the surface of molten metal in the ladle.

Mazed with a yelping kennel of French curs Shak. At the least flourish of a broomstick or ladle, he would fly to the door with a yelping precipitation. W. Irving.