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A speaking acquaintanceSpeaking Speak"ing, a.
1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a
speaking animal; a speaking tube.
2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a
speaking likeness.
A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a
person, or one which merely permits the exchange of
salutations and remarks on indifferent subjects.
Speaking trumpet, an instrument somewhat resembling a
trumpet, by which the sound of the human voice may be so
intensified as to be conveyed to a great distance.
Speaking tube, a tube for conveying speech, especially from
one room to another at a distance.
To be on speaking terms, to be slightly acquainted. BakingBake Bake (b[=a]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Baked (b[=a]kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. Baking.] [AS. bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG.
bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. ? to
roast.]
1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in
an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as,
to bake bread, meat, apples.
Note: Baking is the term usually applied to that method of
cooking which exhausts the moisture in food more than
roasting or broiling; but the distinction of meaning
between roasting and baking is not always observed.
2. To dry or harden (anything) by subjecting to heat, as, to
bake bricks; the sun bakes the ground.
3. To harden by cold.
The earth . . . is baked with frost. --Shak.
They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone.
--Spenser. BakingBaking Bak"ing, n.
1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and
hardening by heat or cold.
2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of
bread.
Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting
of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter. Baking powderPowder Pow"der, n. [OE. poudre, pouldre, F. poudre, OF. also
poldre, puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour,
mill dust, E. pollen. Cf. Polverine, Pulverize.]
1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced
by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it
falls by decay; dust.
Grind their bones to powder small. --Shak.
2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.;
gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See under Atlas,
Baking, etc.
Powder down (Zo["o]l.), the peculiar dust, or exfoliation,
of powder-down feathers.
Powder-down feather (Zo["o]l.), one of a peculiar kind of
modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain
parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a
scaly exfoliation.
Powder-down patch (Zo["o]l.), a tuft or patch of
powder-down feathers.
Powder hose, a tube of strong linen, about an inch in
diameter, filled with powder and used in firing mines.
--Farrow.
Powder hoy (Naut.), a vessel specially fitted to carry
powder for the supply of war ships. They are usually
painted red and carry a red flag.
Powder magazine, or Powder room. See Magazine, 2.
Powder mine, a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine.
Powder monkey (Naut.), a boy formerly employed on war
vessels to carry powder; a powder boy.
Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry.
Powder puff. See Puff, n. Baking powderBaking Bak"ing, n.
1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and
hardening by heat or cold.
2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of
bread.
Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting
of an acid, a carbonate, and a little farinaceous matter. Bakingly
Bakingly Bak"ing*ly, adv.
In a hot or baking manner.
BespeakingBespeak Be*speak", v. t. [imp. Bespoke, Bespake (Archaic);
p. p. Bespoke, Bespoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Bespeaking.]
[OE. bispeken, AS. besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be-
+ sprecan to speak. See Speak.]
1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage
against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a
favor.
Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice
was to bespeak his favor. --Sir W.
Scott.
2. To show beforehand; to foretell; to indicate.
[They] bespoke dangers . . . in order to scare the
allies. --Swift.
3. To betoken; to show; to indicate by external marks or
appearances.
When the abbot of St. Martin was born, he had so
little the figure of a man that it bespoke him
rather a monster. --Locke.
4. To speak to; to address. [Poetic]
He thus the queen bespoke. --Dryden. BetakingBetake Be*take", v. t. [imp. Betook; p. p. Betaken; p. pr.
& vb. n. Betaking.] [Pref. be- + take.]
1. To take or seize. [Obs.] --Spenser.
2. To have recourse to; to apply; to resort; to go; -- with a
reflexive pronoun.
They betook themselves to treaty and submission.
--Burke.
The rest, in imitation, to like arms Betook them.
--Milton.
Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? --Milton.
3. To commend or intrust to; to commit to. [Obs.] BootmakingBootmaker Boot"mak`er, n.
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. BrickmakingBrickmaker Brick"mak`er, n.
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing,
n. Cabinetmaking
Cabinetmaking Cab"i*net*mak`ing, n.
The art or occupation of making the finer articles of
household furniture.
CakingCake Cake, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Caked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Caking.]
To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an
oven; to coagulate.
Clotted blood that caked within. --Addison. Caking coalCaking coal Cak"ing coal`
See Coal. Caking coalCoal Coal, n. [AS. col; akin to D. kool, OHG. chol, cholo, G.
kohle, Icel. kol, pl., Sw. kol, Dan. kul; cf. Skr. jval to
burn. Cf. Kiln, Collier.]
1. A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited,
fragment from wood or other combustible substance;
charcoal.
2. (Min.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible
substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used
for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon,
but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a
large amount of volatile matter.
Note: This word is often used adjectively, or as the first
part of self-explaining compounds; as, coal-black; coal
formation; coal scuttle; coal ship. etc.
Note: In England the plural coals is used, for the broken
mineral coal burned in grates, etc.; as, to put coals
on the fire. In the United States the singular in a
collective sense is the customary usage; as, a hod of
coal.
Age of coal plants. See Age of Acrogens, under Acrogen.
Anthracite or Glance coal. See Anthracite.
Bituminous coal. See under Bituminous.
Blind coal. See under Blind.
Brown coal, or Lignite. See Lignite.
Caking coal, a bituminous coal, which softens and becomes
pasty or semi-viscid when heated. On increasing the heat,
the volatile products are driven off, and a coherent,
grayish black, cellular mass of coke is left.
Cannel coal, a very compact bituminous coal, of fine
texture and dull luster. See Cannel coal.
Coal bed (Geol.), a layer or stratum of mineral coal.
Coal breaker, a structure including machines and machinery
adapted for crushing, cleansing, and assorting coal.
Coal field (Geol.), a region in which deposits of coal
occur. Such regions have often a basinlike structure, and
are hence called coal basins. See Basin.
Coal gas, a variety of carbureted hydrogen, procured from
bituminous coal, used in lighting streets, houses, etc.,
and for cooking and heating.
Coal heaver, a man employed in carrying coal, and esp. in
putting it in, and discharging it from, ships.
Coal measures. (Geol.)
(a) Strata of coal with the attendant rocks.
(b) A subdivision of the carboniferous formation, between
the millstone grit below and the Permian formation
above, and including nearly all the workable coal beds
of the world.
Coal oil, a general name for mineral oils; petroleum.
Coal plant (Geol.), one of the remains or impressions of
plants found in the strata of the coal formation.
Coal tar. See in the Vocabulary.
To haul over the coals, to call to account; to scold or
censure. [Colloq.]
Wood coal. See Lignite. CloakingCloak Cloak, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cloaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Cloaking.]
To cover with, or as with, a cloak; hence, to hide or
conceal.
Now glooming sadly, so to cloak her matter. --Spenser.
Syn: See Palliate. Cloaking
Cloaking Cloak"ing, n.
1. The act of covering with a cloak; the act of concealing
anything.
To take heed of their dissemblings and cloakings.
--Strype.
2. The material of which of which cloaks are made.
CreakingCreak Creak (kr[=e]k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Creaked
(kr[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Creaking.] [OE. creken, prob.
of imitative origin; cf. E. crack, and. D. krieken to
crackle, chirp.]
To make a prolonged sharp grating or squeaking sound, as by
the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak.
The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. --Dryden.
Doors upon their hinges creaked. --Tennyson. Creaking
Creaking Creak"ing, n.
A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such
a sound.
Start not at the creaking of the door. --Longfellow.
CroakingCroak Croak (kr?k), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Croaked. (kr?kt); p.
pr. & vb. n. Croaking.] [From the primitive of AS.
cracettan to croak as a raven; akin to G. kr?chzen to croak,
and to E. creak, crake.]
1. To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a
raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.
Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the
hoarse nation croaked. --Pope.
2. To complain; especially, to grumble; to forebode evil; to
utter complaints or forebodings habitually.
Marat . . . croaks with reasonableness. --Carlyle. Dressmaking
Dressmaking Dress"mak`ing, n.
The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
Faking boxFake Fake, v. t. (Naut.)
To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in
opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of
eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out.
Faking box, a box in which a long rope is faked; used in
the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot. FlakingFlake Flake, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Flaked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Flaking.]
To form into flakes. --Pope. Fleaking
Fleaking Fleak"ing, n.
A light covering of reeds, over which the main covering is
laid, in thatching houses. [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.
Forespeaking
Forespeaking Fore"speak`ing, n.
A prediction; also, a preface. [Obs.] --Camden. Huloet.
ForsakingForsake For*sake", v. t. [imp. Forsook; p. p. Forsaken; p.
pr. & vb. n. Forsaking.] [AS. forsacan to oppose, refuse;
for- + sacan to contend, strive; akin to Goth. sakan. See
For-, and Sake.]
1. To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to
depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and
flatterers forsake us in adversity.
If his children forsake my law, and walk not in my
judgments. --Ps. lxxxix.
30.
2. To renounce; to reject; to refuse.
If you forsake the offer of their love. --Shak.
Syn: To abandon; quit; desert; fail; relinquish; give up;
renounce; reject. See Abandon. FreakingFreak Freak (fr[=e]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freaked
(fr[=e]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Freaking.] [Akin to OE. frakin,
freken, freckle, Icel. freknur, pl., Sw. fr["a]kne, Dan.
fregne, Gr. perkno`s dark-colored, Skr. p[.r][,c]ni
variegated. Cf. Freckle, Freck.]
To variegate; to checker; to streak. [R.]
Freaked with many a mingled hue. --Thomson. Freaking
Freaking Freak"ing, a.
Freakish. [Obs.] --Pepys.
Glass makingGlass maker Glass" mak`er, or Glassmaker Glass"mak`er, n.
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing,
or Glass"mak`ing, n. GlassmakingGlass maker Glass" mak`er, or Glassmaker Glass"mak`er, n.
One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing,
or Glass"mak`ing, n. Haymaking
Haymaking Hay"mak`ing, n.
The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
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