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02/08/2025

#50856

BATTERER

One who, or that which, batters.

#35819

HARVEY PROCESS

A process of hardening the face of steel, as armor plates,invented by Hayward A. Harvey of New Jersey, consisting in theadditional carburizing of the face of a piece of low carbon steel bysubjecting it to the action of carbon under long-continued pressureat a very high heat, and then to a violent chilling, as by a spray ofcold water. This process gives an armor plate a thick surface ofextreme hardness supported by material gradually decreasing inhardness to the unaltered soft steel at the back.

#23731

TRAGI-COMEDY

A kind of drama representing some action in which serious andcomic scenes are blended; a composition partaking of the nature bothof tragedy and comedy.The noble tragi-comedy of "Measure for Measure." Macaulay.

#79395

DISBASE

To debase or degrade. [Obs.]Nor you nor your house were so much as spoken of before I disbasedmyself. B. Jonson.

#19439

DICASTERY

A court of justice; judgment hall. [R.] J. S. Mill.

#82829

RED-RIBAND

The European red band fish, or fireflame. See Rend fish.

#35801

UNPAY

To undo, take back, or annul, as a payment. Shak.

#36142

WEATHER-DRIVEN

Driven by winds or storms; forced by stress of weather. Carew.

#64880

PECTORILOQUOUS

Pectoriloquial.

#59491

JUWANSA

The camel's thorn. See under Camel.

#6263

IRIS

The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of thegods. Shak.

#77827

SWIG

A tackle with ropes which are not parallel.