Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning.
The ordeal by fire was performed, either by handling red-hot iron, or by walking barefoot and blindfold over red-hot plowshares, laid at unequal distances.
They were formerly punished by being whipped and having the gristle of the right ear bored with a hot iron.
The Cudra who has been guilty of injuring a Dvija by dangerous language, is to have his tongue clipped; if he has spoken disrespectfully of him, a hot iron is to be thrust into his mouth, and boiling oil poured into his mouth and ears.
A mark made by burning with a hot iron, as upon a cask, to designate the quality, manufacturer, etc.
To burn a distinctive mark into or upon with a hot iron, to indicate quality, ownership, etc.
Place cartridge paper, or strong writing paper, on a hot iron plate, and rub it well with a lump of beeswax.
The tap which confined the gas at this pressure, being opened, a jet of a steel blue colour escaped from the orifice, accompanied by a hissing sound, like that given off when a red-hot iron is dipped into cold water.
On one of these boards I saw branded with a hot iron, the name Walrus--the name of Flint's ship.
Until the reign of Queen Anne the punishment of an English officer for blasphemy was boring the tongue with a hot iron.
The pillory was aristocratic in comparison, as was also branding with a hot iron.
Ferrous sulphide, FeS, results from the direct union of its elements, best by stirring molten sulphur with a white-hot iron rod, when the sulphide drops to the bottom of the crucible.
It may be obtained artificially by passing steam over red-hot iron.
When they amputated a leg or an arm they applied the actual cautery, or red-hot iron, to stop the effusion of blood.
In this state the workman brightens the surface, and lays the steel upon a piece of hot iron, and holds it to the fire till it becomes of a colour which he knows from experience is a test of the proper state of the process.
Out from the forge rush three or four men bearing a red-hot iron hoop.
Tell her to iron it wi a hot iron, And plait it a' in ae plait round.
The result was absolutely new to all experience--India-rubber not melting in contact with red-hot iron!
To dip one’s finger into this liquid air would freeze it solid in a second and would be as disastrous as dipping it in red-hot iron.
A bland fixed oil, obtained usually from bitter almonds by the action of a hydraulic press, either in the cold, or aided by hot iron plates.
As the active principle of this juice is volatile, it is easily dissipated by baking the squeezed cakes of pulp upon a plate of hot iron.
It is also shown in bodies of such hard texture as not to swell or dilate in bulk, such as red-hot iron, in which the heat is most violent.
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