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imp. & p. p.
of Consume
a.
To wear away by degrees; to impair gradually; to diminish by constant loss; to use up; to consume; to spend; to wear out.
v. t.
To throw out in whiffs; to consume in whiffs; to puff.
v. i.
To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.
v. i.
To expend money or any other possession; to consume, use, waste, or part with, anything; as, he who gets easily spends freely.
n.
One who, or that which, consumes; as, the consumer of food.
v. i.
To waste or wear away; to be consumed; to lose force or strength; to vanish; as, energy spends in the using of it.
v. t.
To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
v. i.
To be diminished; to lose bulk, substance, strength, value, or the like, gradually; to be consumed; to dwindle; to grow less.
v. t.
To seize and waste; to exhaust; to consume.
v. t.
To consume or spend in talking; -- often followed by away; as, to talk away an evening.
a.
Pertaining to, or engaged in, trade by the piece or large quantity; selling to retailers or jobbers rather than to consumers; as, a wholesale merchant; the wholesale price.
n.
Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.
n.
A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia.
v. t.
To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
v. t.
One who, or that which, wastes; one who squanders; one who consumes or expends extravagantly; a spendthrift; a prodigal.
a.
Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.
v. i.
To make offerings to God, or to a deity, of things consumed on the altar; to offer sacrifice.
v. t.
To consume; to waste; to squander; to exhaust; as, to spend an estate in gaming or other vices.
n.
An abundant element of the magnesium-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. It is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. It is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. Symbol Zn. Atomic weight 64.9.
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