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A mess; trouble. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. Mash tun, a large tub used in making mash and wort.

One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.

A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches.

See Maslin.

Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.

High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

Gaiters reaching to the knee; leggings. Strong gramashes, or leggings of thick gray cloth. Sir W. Scott.

A hotchpotch. Sir T. Herbert.

See Camass.

break in pieces by violence; to dash to pieces; to crush. Here everything is broken and smashed to pieces. Burke.

One who, or that which, smashes or breaks things to pieces.

To strike, beat, or bang; to break; to destroy. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]

bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. [Written also camas, cammas, and quamash.]

ned to throw a large projectile with small velocity, used for the purpose of breaking or smashing in, rather than piercing, the object aimed at, as the side of a ship. It has no trunnions, but is supported on its carriage by a bolt passing through a loop on its under side.

A mold (in the shape of a hollow vessel or incasement) of boiled rice, mashed potato or paste, baked, and afterwards filled with vegetables or meat.

A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perfprated metal, or the like.

A tool, or a sewing-mashine attachment, for making lines or creases on leather or cloth, as guides to sew by.

on; condensation; as, the distillation of illuminating gas and coal, of alcohol from sour mash, or of boric acid in steam.

The grain from the mashing tub; as, brewers' drains. [Eng.] Halliwell. Box drain, Counter drain. See under Box, Counter. -- Right of drain (Law), an easement or servitude by which one man has a right to convey water in pipes through or over the estate of another. Kent.

ing flour; a dredging box. -- Flour dredge or dredger, a flour box. -- Flour dresser, a mashine for sorting and distributing flour according to grades of fineness. -- Flour mill, a mill for grinding and sifting flour.