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Fig.: To unite closely or intimately. Two women faster welded in one love. Tennyson.

A compound of iron, such as puddled steel, made without complete fusion.

Capable of being welded.

One who welds, or unites pieces of iron, etc., by welding.

A process for the recovery or regeneration of manganese dioxide in the manufacture of chlorine, by means of milk of lime and the oxygen of the air; -- so called after the inventor.

See Butt weld, under Butt.

To unite by a butt weld.

See Buttweld, v. t.

Having edges or ends united by a lap weld; as, a lap-welded pipe.

Unwieldy; unmanageable; clumsy. [Obs.] Our old limbs move [may] well be unweld. Chaucer.

nder Bead. -- Butt and butt, joining end to end without overlapping, as planks. -- Butt weld (Mech.), a butt joint, made by welding together the flat ends, or edges, of a piece of iron or steel, or of separate pieces, without having them overlap. See Weld. -- Full butt, headfirst with full force. [Colloq.] "The corp…

- used for making castings, and for conversion into wrought iron and steel. It can not be welded or forged, is brittle, and sometimes very hard. Besides carbon, it contains sulphur, phosphorus, silica, etc.

ion that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easily destroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal w…

Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of a forging or casting. -- n.

To blow together; to bring together; to collect; to fuse together; to join or weld; to consolidate.

ascus twist, metal formed of thin bars or wires of iron and steel elaborately twisted and welded together; used for making gun barrels, etc., of high quality, in which the surface, when polished and acted upon by acid, has a damasc appearance. -- Damascus steel. See Damask steel, under Damask, a.

of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

ts smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white- flame heat, and a sparking or welding heat. Moxon.

; as, raspberry jam; currant jam; grape jam. Jam nut. See Check nut, under Check. -- Jam weld (Forging), a butt weld. See under Butt.

To join by a butt weld.