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Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which

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Prepared by means of heat; burned in. Encaustic painting (Fine Arts), painting by means of wax with which the colors are combined, and which is afterwards fused with hot irons, thus fixing the colors. -- Encaustic tile , an earthenware tile which has a decorative pattern and is not wholly of one color.

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  • FUSE PLUG; FUZE PLUG
    A plug fitted to the fuse hole of a shell to hold the fuse. 2. A fusible plug that screws into a receptacle, used as a fuse in electric wiring.
  • FUSILE
    See A
  • BURN
    To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
  • FUSURE
    Act of fusing; fusion.
  • FUSCIN
    A brown, nitrogenous pigment contained in the retinal epithelium; a variety of melanin.
  • FUSION
    The union, or binding together, of adjacent parts or tissues. (more info) 1. The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals. 2. The state of being melted or dissolved by heat; a
  • BURNISHER
    1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
  • BURNISH
    To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
  • PREPARATIVELY
    By way of preparation.
  • FIXTURE
    Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
  • BURNIEBEE
    The ladybird.
  • PAINTING
    The work of the painter; also, any work of art in which objects are represented in color on a flat surface; a colored representation of any object or scene; a picture. 3. Color laid on; paint. Shak. 4. A depicting by words; vivid representation
  • FUSTIGATE
    To cudgel. Bailey.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • PAINTER
    A rope at the bow of a boat, used to fasten it to anything. Totten. (more info) panthera, L. panther a hunting net, fr. Gr. ; painteir a net, gin,
  • COMBINATION
    The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
  • COMBINE
    1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
  • FUSIL
    1. Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward. 2. Running or flowing, as a liquid. "A fusil sea." J. Philips. 3. Formed by melting and pouring into a mold; cast; founded. Milton.
  • FUSTILUG; FUSTILUGS
    A gross, fat, unwieldy person. F. Junius.
  • FUSTINESS
    A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.
  • OVERBURN
    To burn too much; to be overzealous.
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • SUNBURNING
    Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
  • AFFUSE
    To pour out or upon. I first affused water upon the compressed beans. Boyle.
  • PERFUSIVE
    Of a nature to flow over, or to spread through.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • SUNBURN
    To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
  • DEFIX
    To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • GAS-BURNER
    The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
  • DEFUSE
    To disorder; to make shapeless. Shak.
  • AFFIXION
    Affixture. T. Adams.
  • AUBURN
    1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
  • REPAINT
    To paint anew or again; as, to repaint a house; to repaint the ground of a picture.

 

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