WHITE PEPPER.This is the produce of the same plant as that which produces the black pepper, from which it is manufactured by steeping this in lime and water, and rubbing it between the hands till the coats come off.

The young leaves of the peach are sometimes used in cookery, from their agreeable flavour; and a liqueur resembling the fine noyeau of Martinique may be made by steeping them in brandy sweetened with sugar and fined with milk: gin may also be flavoured in the same manner.

Turn thine eyes from me, Angel of Heaven Read not my soul, Angel of Heaven Sorrow is steeping my pale cheeks with weeping, Evermore keeping her wand on my heart, On my cold stony heart, while the tear-fountains start To purge it from leaven too sinful for Heaven Read not my soul, yet, Angel of Heaven!

Many of the kind-hearted people accompanied us to the precipice, and ran before to clear the way; and, through divine mercy, we reached the dwelling of our kind host in safety; not without a steeping of mountain rain.

This is best accomplished by steeping in the solution pieces of linen, and hanging them about the rooms, as also frequently and freely sprinkling the walls themselves; and as soon as the invalid is removed, the chamber should be white-washed, the various articles of furniture well scoured with soap and water, and the room be well and freely ventilated prior to its being again occupied.

Below, and in a line with this reservoir, are the steeping vats, each capable of containing about 2000 cubic feet of water when full.

Of course as the vats are loaded at different hours, and the steeping varies with circumstances, they must be ready to open also at different intervals.

No doubt the state of the weather, the quality of your plant, the temperature of the water, the length of time steeping, and other things have an influence; but I know of no planter who can entirely and satisfactorily account for the sudden and incomprehensible fluctuations and variations which undoubtedly take place in the produce or yield of the plant.

Laughing, Marguerite in turn wound it about herself, and the flowers, so lately plucked from the bath of hot air, where they had lain steeping in sun, flashed through the air a second, and then played all their faint spirit-like luminosity about their new wearer.

The waters derived from a prolonged steeping of vegetables, and charged with all the soluble principles extracted therefrom, have, after their sojourn in a proper medium, deposited the carbonized residua that have themselves become soluble, and have there formed masses of combustibles of a different composition from that resulting from the skeletons of plants, such as cannel coal, pitch coal, boghead, etc.

Cloud and sunshine, stormy winds, and steeping rains, have each their appointed purpose; and in their season contribute to bless, and refresh the earth; that it may bring forth its increase for the service of man and beast.

"You forgot that for happiness to visit a man even once is an undeserved favor, a steeping in luxury.

Cream gravies for vegetables may be delicately flavored with celery, by steeping a few bits of celery in the milk for a few minutes, and removing with a fork before adding

Sauces for puddings may be similarly flavored, by steeping cocoanut or bits of orange or lemon rind in the milk.

TISANE.This is a favorite French beverage, and is prepared by chopping fine a cupful of dried fruits, such as prunes, figs, or prunelles, and steeping for an hour in a quart of water, afterward straining, sweetening to taste, and cooling on ice before using.

PYROXYLINE, an explosive substance obtained by steeping vegetable fibre in nitro-sulphuric acid and drying after it is washed. PYRRHA, in Greek mythology the wife of DEUCALION (q. v.).

The young leaves and blossoms steeping in the mist sent up a delicious odor.

The varieties that are found to boil are either used whole, or split, which is done by steeping them in water till the cotyledons swell, after which they are dried on a kiln and passed through a mill; which just breaking the husk, the two cotyledons fall apart. 85.

Besides the use of Wheat for bread and other domestic purposes, large quantities are every season consumed in making starch, which is the pure fecula of the grain obtained by steeping it in water and beating it in coarse hempen bags, by which means the fecula is thus caused to exude and diffuse through the water.

Life of the bodyand life of the soulseemed to be flowing back upon him, lifting him on its wave, steeping him in its freshening strength.

Three weeks of steeping one's soul in the oldest, most complete and satisfactory ruins on the face of the earth.

He awoke with the aroma of the woods still steeping his senses.

The above operation of detaching the bast layer from the stem is technically known as "retting," and a good type of retting or steeping place is an off-set of a run, branch, or stream where the water moves slowly, or even remains at rest, during the time the plants are under treatment.

When the ryot considers that the layers are separated from the core sufficiently easy, the work of steeping ceases, and the process of stripping is commenced immediately.

Reach Reeling Retting Roller-feed Rolls Root-comber opener Round-thread finish Rove Roving frame Roxburgh, Dr. Sack-cutting frame, semi-mechanical Sack making printing machine Sand bags Seed per acre, amount of sowing of Sewing machines Shell-feed Short-tell Snipping machine Softening machines Spinning Spool or roll winding Spools (see Rolls) Standard bale Starching (see Dressing) Steeping (see Retting)