brasque (brask)

[F. brasque.] A paste variously made, used as a lining for crucibles and furnaces. The brasque of the larger-sized crucibles is formed of anthracite powder, powdered gas-carbon, and gas-tar. brasque (brask), v . t .; pret. and pp. brasqued , ppr. brasquing . [ brasque , n.] To line with brasque. W. H. Greenwood , Steel and Iron, p. 24. The pig is melted in a separate hearth, in fact is pa ed through a sort of "running out" fire or refinery before it reaches the finery proper; the bed of this latter is brasqued or lined with charcoal powder moistened and rammed in, and so forcibly compre ed. Encyc . Brit ., XIII. 319.