A variegated, hard, heavy wood having shades of brown and violet or red with black streaks; used for turned articles

A receptacle containing burning coal or coke; sometimes used to dry out a building.

To join two pieces of metal by a hard, nonferrous filler metal, usually in rod or wire form, having a

A decorative cresting at the top of a Gothic screen, panel, parapet, or cornice, generally in the form of openwork

In medieval fortifications, a tower or bay of timber construction. (See illustration p. 136.)

Pipe manufactured from an alloy containing 85 percent copper and 15 percent zinc. The advantages and disadvantages of brass pipe

1. Any copper alloy having zinc as the principal alloying element, but often with small quantities of other elements. 2.