In consequence of the increase of cold, and the prevalence of a calm during the night, there was formed a complete coating of ice over the bay, extending to Round Island.

It then receives a second coating of lacquer, and when dry is once more polished.

He had been giving a fresh coating to the woodwork in front of the pavilion scoring box at the conclusion of yesterday's match.

Fill the pots with good heavy loam, water freely, and apply a coating of charcoal, coarse sand, and sphragnum moss, rubbed through a fine sieve.

"Tea, my dear Evadne," he said, as he passed her cup to be refilled, "is an infusion of poison which is slowly but surely destroying the coatings of the gastronomical organ of the female portion of society.

Started N.W. and strongest S.S.E. The sea wants to freezea thin coating of ice formed directly the wind dropped; but the high temperature does not tend to thicken it rapidly and the tide makes many an open lead.

As the nail was scarcely three-quarters of an inch long,not long enough to go clear through and injure the inner coating on the opposite side,it was entirely practical to reinsert and run until it worked out.

The first thing, then, is to lay a sensitive coating on a piece of glass,crown-glass, which has a natural surface, being preferable to plate-glass.

There is just one fluid which leaves that brown, hard coating when it dries upon woven cloth.

Rain had carried the earth from above in small cataracts down its face, making a thin alluvial coating.

Miss Aphrodite picked it up and, stooping, slipped it over his mighty toes, noticing as she did so the thick coating of phosphorescent paint that still covered them.

Then, into each groove I painted a thick coating of tallow and black lead, mixed into a paste and heated.

When all the ingredients are thoroughly mixed, put it into glass or earthen potting-pots, and pour on the top a coating of clarified butter.

If we coat something we produce a coating, not a coat.

Thomson, Through Masai Land, 89, where we read that woman's coating of lampblack and castor-oilher only dressserves to prevent excessive perspiration in the day-time and ward off chills at night.

This they do by removing the hard red outer coating, and baring to view the natural colour of the greenstone, according to the outline they have traced.

Mr Shaw informs us, moreover, that if those individuals which have assumed the silvery lustre be forcibly detained for a month or two in fresh water, they will resume the coloured coating which they formerly bore.

Fragments of shells appeared as steps scuffed away the thin coating of snow.

The process as practised in China is thus described by M. Jacquemart: "The wood when smoothly planed is covered with a sheet of thin paper or silk gauze, over which is spread a thick coating made of powdered red sandstone and buffalo's gall.

Some of the women washed the coating from the back of the glasses much to their regret, when they found that the reflecting property was thus destroyed.

Everything in the car wears a soft gray coating before the train has been in motion half an hour.

None of these countries bears such a coating of grass as came up from the black soil of Iowa; for their climate is drier.

It is not polished with dry meal as is usual in making a cake, but when it is cooked a thin coating of eggs (four in number), mixed with buttermilk, is spread first on one side, then on the other, and it is put before the fire again.

The stone had taken on the mellow color of the cloudless countries where the sun toasts readily and the rain does not deposit a grimy coating.