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1. bagasse, n. View full entry 1833
...The refuse products in sugar-making, whether from the cane or from beet. Also attrib....
2. bastard, n. and adj. View full entry 1297
...One begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate or natural child....
3. bloom, n.1 View full entry ?c1200
...The blossom or flower of a plant. (Not extended like ‘flower’ to a whole ‘flowering plant’, and expressing a more delicate notion than ‘blossom’, which is more commonly florescence bearing promise of...
4. blow-up, n. View full entry 1807
...= blow-out1....
5. boatswain, n. View full entry OE
...A ship's officer in charge of equipment (in a sailing ship, esp. the sails, rigging, cables, etc.) and the work of the crew on deck. Cf. bosun...
6. carbonatation, n. View full entry 1869
...In industrial processes: the reaction of lime and carbon dioxide to form calcium carbonate; spec. (in beet sugar manufacture) the addition of calcium hydroxide followed by carbon dioxide to the...
7. clarifier, n. View full entry 1541
...One who or that which clarifies; spec. a substance used to clarify liquids, etc....
8. clay, n. View full entry c1000
...A stiff viscous earth found, in many varieties, in beds or other deposits near the surface of the ground and at various depths below it: it forms with water a tenacious paste...
9. clay, v. View full entry ?1523
...trans. To treat with clay; to cover, smear, or plaster with clay....
10. clayed, adj. View full entry 1760
...Treated with clay; spec. of sugar, refined with clay; of land, dressed with clay....
11. claying, n. View full entry ?1523
...The action of clay...
12. concreter | concretor, n. View full entry 1869
...One who or that which concretes: spec....
13. condenser, n. View full entry 1686
...That which makes dense, collects into smaller space, intensifies, etc.: see condense1....
14. cooler, n. View full entry a1550
...A container in which anything is cooled or set to cool, esp. in a manufacturing process; spec.a container used for cooling the wort in brewing; a container into...
15. ˈcopper-wall, n. View full entry
...An old-fashioned arrangement in sugar-making, consisting of a long row of open pans or boilers bricked together within two parallel walls, and heated by a fire at one end. ...
16. defecator, n. View full entry 1864
...One who or that which defecates or purifies; spec. in Sugar Manuf.: see quot. 1874....
17. eˈvaporating, n. View full entry 1630
...The action of evaporate; lit. and fig....
18. false, adj., adv., and n. View full entry c1000
...Of opinions, propositions, doctrines, representations: Contrary to what is true, erroneous....
19. feather, n. View full entry c850
...One of the epidermal appendages of a bird, usually in the form of a central shaft or midrib, of a horny nature, in part tubular, for the rest square in section and...
20. feathered, adj. View full entry c1000
...Of birds, animals, etc.: Provided with or having feathers. Phr. feathered friend: a bird (used sentimentally or ironically). Also in parasynthetic comb., as black-feathered, hard-feathered, ...
