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Free-milling :: Free-milling (a.) Yielding free gold or silver; -- said of certain ores which can be reduced by crushing and amalgamation, without roasting or other chemical treatment..

Deathblow :: Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.

Battery :: Battery (v. t.) The box in which the stamps for crushing ore play up and down.

Lithotripsy :: Lithotripsy (n.) The operation of crushing a stone in the bladder with an instrument called lithotriptor or lithotrite; lithotrity.

Heartbreak :: Heartbreak (n.) Crushing sorrow or grief; a yielding to such grief.

Cephalotripsy :: Cephalotripsy (n.) The act or operation of crushing the head of a fetus in the womb in order to effect delivery.

Crushing :: Crushing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Crus.

Heartbroken :: Heartbroken (a.) Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.

Squat :: Squat (n.) A sudden or crushing fall.

Mashy :: Mashy (a.) Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash..

Pash :: Pash (v. t.) A crushing blow.

Ecraseur :: Ecraseur (n.) An instrument intended to replace the knife in many operations, the parts operated on being severed by the crushing effect produced by the gradual tightening of a steel chain, so that hemorrhage rarely follows..

Mill :: Mill (n.) A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill..

Swashway :: Swashing (a.) Resounding; crushing.

Squeteague :: Squelch (n.) A heavy fall, as of something flat; hence, also, a crushing reply..

Cranioclasm :: Cranioclasm (n.) The crushing of a child's head, as with the cranioclast or craniotomy forceps in cases of very difficult delivery..

Pressure :: Pressure (n.) The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand..

Cestraciont :: Cestraciont (n.) A shark of the genus Cestracion, and of related genera. The posterior teeth form a pavement of bony plates for crushing shellfish. Most of the species are extinct. The Port Jackson shark and a similar one found in California are living examples..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.

Pycnodont :: Pycnodont (n.) Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They have numerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing..

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