Definition of last

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Last (n.) A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers;

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Yearly :: Yearly (a.) Lasting a year; as, a yearly plant..
Syringed :: Syringe (n.) A kind of small hand-pump for throwing a stream of liquid, or for purposes of aspiration. It consists of a small cylindrical barrel and piston, or a bulb of soft elastic material, with or without valves, and with a nozzle which is sometimes at the end of a flexible tube; -- used for injecting animal bodies, cleansing wounds, etc..
Air Gun :: Air gun () A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger..
Ectoblast :: Ectoblast (n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; the epiblast; the ectoderm.
Outlast :: Outlast (v. t.) To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.
Periplast :: Periplast (n.) Same as Periblast.
Campaign :: Campaign (n.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation.
Three-coat :: Three-coat (a.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat..
Siderated :: Siderated (a.) Planet-struck; blasted.
Mesoplast :: Mesoplast (n.) The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast.
Mica :: Mica (n.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer..
Air Drill :: Air drill () A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill.
Bound :: Bound (v. i.) To rebound, as an elastic ball..
Dessert :: Dessert (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner..
Plastin :: Plastin (n.) A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by some considered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus..
Unballasted :: Unballasted (a.) Freed from ballast; having discharged ballast.
Sneap :: Sneap (v. t.) To nip; to blast; to blight.
Blaster :: Blaster (n.) One who, or that which, blasts or destroys..
Ring :: Ring (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.
Permanent :: Permanent (a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression..
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