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assion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief. Hawthorne.

Full of rage; expressing rage. [Obs.] "Rageful eyes." Sir P. Sidney.

Wantonness. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To encourage. [Obs.]

The process of coating the surface of a metal plate (as a stereotype plate) with steellike iron by means of voltaic electricity; steeling.

The offerings made upon the altar, or to a church.

The strength of a current of electricity carried by a conductor or generated by a machine, measured in ampères.

Something which holds like an anchor; a hold; as, the anchorages of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Judgment by an arbiter; authoritative determination. [Archaic]

That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

itable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, b…

obstruction placed in a river or water course to increase the depth of water; as, the barrages of the Nile.

pplied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson.

A raid. [Obs.]

A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago (B. officinalis), which is used, esp. in France, as a demulcent and diaphoretic.

Plant of the Borage family.

See Borage, n., etc.

The business or employment of a broker. Burke.

A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.

See Carrageen.