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Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

In a lasting manner.

That which is used for steadying anything; ballast.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

Lasting or enduring forever; exsisting or continuing without end; immoral; eternal. "The Everlasting God." Gen. xx1. 33.

In an everlasting manner.

The state of being everlasting; endless duration; indefinite duration.

Continuing; lasting.

ow formation, unattended with the pain and heat characteristic of ordinary abscesses, and lasting for years without exhibiting any tendency towards healing; a chronic abscess.

Eternal; everlasting. "Æonian hills." Tennyson.

An instrument for boring holes, used in blasting.

Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

A drawing paper of large size. See under Paper, n. Atlas powder, a nitroglycerin blasting compound of pasty consistency and great explosive power.

A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.

Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe. Herbert.

ith all submission, on my knee I do bequeath my faithful services And true subjection everlastingly. Shak.

A fuse used in blasting, consisting of a long cylinder of explosive material inclosed in a varnished wrapping of rope or hose. It burns from 2 to 4 feet a minute.

Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

The blasting of the young buds of trees or plants, by excessive heat or caold. Harris.