Casings


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Ca´sings


n. pl.1.Dried dung of cattle used as fuel.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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Here came the entrails, to be scraped and washed clean for sausage casings; men and women worked here in the midst of a sickening stench, which caused the visitors to hasten by, gasping.
Some little display in architecture had been made in constructing these frames and casings, which were surmounted with pediments, that bore each a little pedestal in its centre; on these pedestals were small busts in blacked plaster-of-Paris.
The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.
He had great moments, beautiful and noble thoughts, generous aspirations, and a heart wide and warm enough for the whole race, but he had no bounds, no shape; he was as liberal as the casing air, but he was often as vague and intangible.
The bullet striking the wooden casing of the window exploded, blowing a hole completely through the wood and masonry.
Burns--man of enigmatic moods--made this statement with an inanimate face and staring wilfully at the rudder casing. The statement itself was obscurely suggestive.
Although he was capable of expressing the highest feeling, a casing of timidity destroyed all the graces of his youth, just as the ice of poverty kept him from daring to put forth all his powers.
Two large stern cabins opened out of it, one on each side of the rudder casing. These two cabins communicated through a small bathroom between them, and one was fitted up as the captain's state-room.
Straightway he began taking out the screws, and finally lifted off the lid, showing the casing of lead beneath.
Then I caught the faint reflection of my own face in the casing of the fresco, and it frightened me into some semblance of myself as Raffles joined me with his hands in his pockets.
Two bunches of bananas hung from the beam symmetrically, one on each side of the rudder casing. Everything was as before in the ship-- except that two of her captain's sleeping suits were si- multaneously in use, one motionless in the cuddy, the other keeping very still in the captain's stateroom.
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