mashing tub

Brewing : A tub or vat for containing the mash in breweries. *mashing-vat, *meshing-fette, s. A mash-vat or tub . măsh-lŭm, măsh'-lin, a. & 8. [MASELIN.] A. As adj .: Mixed; a mixture of different kinds of grain. "The mashlum bannocks will suit their muirland stamachs weel."- Scott : Old Mortality , ch. xx. B. As subst.: Mixed grain, mixed food. IMG:content-0964.png:[blocks in formation] mask.] I. Ordinary Language : *1. A festive entertainment; a revel. "After whom marcht a jolly company, In a manner of a maske , enranged orderly." Spenser: F. Q., III. xii. 5. 2. A revel or entertainment at which the company was masked; a masquerade. In these senses the spelling now usually adopted is masque. *3. A revel, a mummery. "This thought might lead me through this world's vain IMG:content-0965.png:[blocks in formation] Man in His Humor, iv. 11. 4. A me , a trouble. "I doubt mainly I shall be i' th' mash too." Beaum. & Flet.: The Captain , iii. 8. 5. A disreputable term for a street flirtation. ( U. S. Slang .) II. Brewing: Crushed or ground grain, malt, or a mixture of the two, steeped in hot water so as to obtain an infusion consisting of the saccharine portions. The resulting solution is wort, and when decocted with hops and fermented it becomes beer; when simply fermented, it is wash for distillation. mash-cooler, subst. A stirring-trough in which mash or wort is stirred to expedite the cooling. The rotary vertical shaft has its fans and stirrers; the former cause a circulation of air, and the latter stir the contents of the shallow circular tube. mash-tub, mash-tun, mash-vat, s . Brewing : The vat or cask in which malt is steeped, and from which the saccharine solution is drawn. IMG:content-0966.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Arch .: A piece of sculpture representing the human face in different aspects, employed for various purposes, as gargoyles, antefixe, outlets of fountains, keystones of arches, on walls and shields, . According to the style of decoration, they were either noble or grotesque. 2. Fencing : A wire cage to protect the face from a stray cut or thrust with a foil in fencing. 3. Factories : [INHALER, II.] 4. Fort.: A cover of gabions or earth to protect workmen in constructing a battery, or a screen for a battery. 5. Music & The at .: (See extract.) "A species of dramatic entertainment in which origi. nally the performers wore masks of peculiar forms suggestive of the allegorical characters a umed. In many IMG:content-0967.png:[blocks in formation] "And then we masked." Shakesp.: homeo and Juliet, i. 5. 2. To be disguised in any way.