Definition of flask

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Flask (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc..

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Morsing Horn :: Morsing horn () A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming..
Ascidium :: Ascidium (n.) A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia)..
Matrass :: Matrass (n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.
Flask :: Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc..
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope..
Calyptra :: Calyptra (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body..
Spray :: Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold..
Powderflask :: Powderflask (n.) A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end..
Flask :: Flask (n.) A small bottle-shaped vessel for holding fluids; as, a flask of oil or wine..
Betty :: Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask..
Lageniform :: Lageniform (a.) Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped.
Lug :: Lug (n.) That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug..
Belly :: Belly (n.) The part of anything which resembles the human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship..
Cheek :: Cheek (n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask..
Flasket :: Flasket (n.) A small flask.
Cucurbite :: Cucurbite (n.) A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic..
Cope :: Cope (n.) The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.
Flasket :: Flasket (n.) A long, shallow basket, with two handles..
Flask :: Flask (n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
Frame :: Frame (n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings..
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