When the hand-weaver's grease continues in contact for a night with the copper dents of his reed, a kind of cupreous soap is formed, which is sometimes very difficult to remove from the web.
The furious indignation in the village against the part that the Rectory had played in the matter, made it impossible for the Dents to remain there.
Silk fabrics move with very few exceptions within the limits of 50 and 90 dents per inch.
The edges, of course, must also be taken in consideration, and very often the dents that are taken up by the latter are used to counter-balance that shrinkage.
To learn the full number of dents required for the width of the cloth, simply multiply the dentsper one inch with the width, adding a certain allowance for shrinkage.
Reed calculation# (number of dents and ends per inch and total number of dents required).
A stripe of 2 dents of 8 ends each, 8 shaft Satin, on 8 shafts straight draw.
All holes, gashes, dents and cracks were turned back or down to deceive the beholder.
It dents them; is impenetrable by them; and we call the hardness then a physical hardness.
Strike it hard enough to just dent it; next strike the back part of the pipe, E, with the same force, and if it dents much more it is not an equally-made bend.
Pull up the pipe as you please, and pump the ball through; it will take all the dents out, and that too very quickly.
The pipe may be dented badly, but these dents can be taken out as follows: Take a piece of 2-inch iron pipe and put it in a vise.
The lead pipe can be slipped over this iron pipe and anydents taken out easily by beating with the dresser.
All kinks and dents are taken out by using the drift plug and driving it through the pipe.
Besides it's makingdents in them, and it's wicked to spoil such beautiful old brasses.
Those were undoubtedly the dentsthat their top-spinning had left.
There were nearly 100 dents of various depths in the plates, but none of sufficient depth to materially injure them.
The night was dark with occasional gleams of moonlight between the dents of the heavy clouds that scudded across the sky.
I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there.
Emma Bradley learned there at the same time he did, and she said he spent most of his time making dents in the floor with other people's heads.
He learned up at the Academy, and he told me that he spent most of his time making dents in the floor with his head.
The Dents du Midi and La Tour from "Entre deux Villes" 74 16.
But he discovered two little dents on the edge, one on each side, which had evidently been caused by the pressure of the rope.
The dents remained, to be sure, but he hoped he had removed the pressure upon the works.
If I could get those dents out," he thought, "the machine might work.
Rob hastily seized his treasure and upon examining it found the fall had bulged the rim so that the old dents scarcely showed at all.
With a center punch (tools) or sharp-pointed nail make smalldents (2 in.
A center-punch or sharp-pointed punch for makingdents in metal.
Three or four good center-punch dents upon the wire over the slot will help to expand it.
There, plain to be seen in the soft black wood of the old sill, were two deep dents that appeared to have been made by some flat, square-edged metal instrument, an inch wide.
From another point of departure, Champery, the various peaks of the Dents du Midi are easily reached.
In the Dents du Midi group the highest is the most accessible.
For, in spite of all the dents which we had made, the two ends at last gradually untwisted.
I scored several dents in the armor of my opponents, and finally succeeded by a lucky stroke in beheading one of them.
Welding an old pike-head, sir; there were seams and dents in it.
Aye, sir, I think I can; all seams and dents but one.
But on the occasion in question, those dents looked deeper, even as his nervous step that morning left a deeper mark.
I can't say that I enjoy the simile, but I'm conceited enough to think it is not as free from dents as it was when I began.
He then drew out of his waistcoat pocket a double eyeglass, gold-mounted, and examining the ceiling with it, soon directed Henry's attention to two deep dents and a brown splash.
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