Definition of flask

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Flask (n.) The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks, the flask is called a three part flask, four part flask, etc..

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Lageniform :: Lageniform (a.) Shaped like a bottle or flask; flag-shaped.
Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper part being the cope..
Cheek :: Cheek (n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold; the middle part of a flask..
Cucurbite :: Cucurbite (n.) A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; -- originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See Alembic..
Graduate :: Graduate (n.) A graduated cup, tube, or flask; a measuring glass used by apothecaries and chemists. See under Graduated..
Pycnometer :: Pycnometer (n.) A specific gravity bottle; a standard flask for measuring and comparing the densities of liquids.
Flask :: Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc..
Olpe :: Olpe (n.) Originally, a leather flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout..
Flask :: Flask (n.) A bed in a gun carriage.
Matrass :: Matrass (n.) A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.
Morsing Horn :: Morsing horn () A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming..
Ampulliform :: Ampulliform (a.) Flask-shaped; dilated.
Pycnidium :: Pycnidium (n.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced..
Lug :: Lug (n.) That which projects like an ear, esp. that by which anything is supported, carried, or grasped, or to which a support is fastened; an ear; as, the lugs of a kettle; the lugs of a founder's flask; the lug (handle) of a jug..
Bombolo :: Bombolo (n.) A thin spheroidal glass retort or flask, used in the sublimation of camphor..
Betty :: Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask..
Powderflask :: Powderflask (n.) A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end..
Frame :: Frame (n.) A molding box or flask, which being filled with sand serves as a mold for castings..
Flasket :: Flasket (n.) A vessel in which viands are served.
Spray :: Spray (n.) A side channel or branch of the runner of a flask, made to distribute the metal in all parts of the mold..
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