Airometer :: Airometer (n.) A hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water..

Andiron :: Andiron (n.) A utensil for supporting wood when burning in a fireplace, one being placed on each side; a firedog; as, a pair of andirons..

Babiroussa :: Babiroussa (n.) Alt. of Babiruss.

Bar Iron :: Bar iron () See under Iron.

Barking Irons :: Barking irons () Instruments used in taking off the bark of trees.

Barking Irons :: Barking irons () A pair of pistols.

Beakiron :: Beakiron (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil..

Birostrate :: Birostrate (a.) Alt. of Birostrate.

Birostrated :: Birostrated (a.) Having a double beak, or two processes resembling beaks..

Box-iron :: Box-iron (n.) A hollow smoothing iron containing a heater within.

Brand Iron :: Brand iron () A branding iron.

Brand Iron :: Brand iron () A trivet to set a pot on.

Brand Iron :: Brand iron () The horizontal bar of an andiron.

Branding Iron :: Branding iron () An iron to brand with.

Brevirostral :: Brevirostral (a.) Alt. of Brevirostrat.

Brevirostrate :: Brevirostrate (a.) Short-billed; having a short beak.

Bridle Iron :: Bridle iron () A strong flat bar of iron, so bent as to support, as in a stirrup, one end of a floor timber, etc., where no sufficient bearing can be had; -- called also stirrup and hanger..

Cast Iron :: Cast iron () Highly carbonized iron, the direct product of the blast furnace; -- 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..

Cast-iron :: Cast-iron (a.) Made of cast iron. Hence, Fig.: like cast iron; hardy; unyielding..

Cheiroptera :: Cheiroptera (n. pl.) An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat..

Cheiropterous :: Cheiropterous (a.) Belonging to the Cheiroptera, or Bat family..

Cheiropterygia :: Cheiropterygia (pl. ) of Cheiropterygiu.

Cheiropterygium :: Cheiropterygium (n.) The typical pentadactyloid limb of the higher vertebrates.

Cheirosophy :: Cheirosophy (n.) The art of reading character as it is delineated in the hand.

Cheirotherium :: Cheirotherium (n.) A genus of extinct animals, so named from fossil footprints rudely resembling impressions of the human hand, and believed to have been made by labyrinthodont reptiles. See Illustration in Appendix..

Chirognomy :: Chirognomy (n.) The art of judging character by the shape and appearance of the hand.

Chirograph :: Chirograph (n.) A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party..

Chirograph :: Chirograph (n.) The last part of a fine of land, commonly called the foot of the fine..

Chirographer :: Chirographer (n.) One who practice the art or business of writing or engrossing.

Chirographer :: Chirographer (n.) See chirographist, 2..

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