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h an edge-stone, heated, filled into bags, and then pressed in a wedgepress or a hydraulic press. The castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis) was well known to the Egyptians, and is called silli-cyprium by Herodotus, and kiki. by the inhabitants of Egypt. The oil was then extracted by pressure or by boiling, and used for anointing. It was probably Jonah's plant, kikion, being mistranslated gourd. Herodotus and Pliny claimed that it smelt badly, but had its uses medicinally. Bessemer and Heywood's machine (D, Fig. 3384) for expressing oil from seeds (English) consists of a bed-plate or framing a a, cast in one piece and having a receptacle b for receiving the expressed oil. The frame supports a gun-metal cylinder ba, within which is fitted a tube c, having a spiral exterior perforated groove, and lined with an open-ended bag of coarse fabric containing a cylinder of wire gauze or perforated metal. The cylinder b is contracted at d, so as to support the interior tube against longit
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of goords, of the eggs of ostriches; others made of the shells of divers fishes brought from the Indies and other places, and shining like mother of pearle. Come to plate, every taverne can afford you flat bowles, beakers; and private householders in the citie, when they make a feast to entertaine their friends, can furnish their cupboards with flaggons, tankards, beere-cups, wine-bowles, some white, some percell guilt, some guilt all over, others without of sundry shapes and qualities. — Heywood's Philo-cathanista, or the Drunkard opened, dissected and anatomized, quarto, London, 1635, p. 45. Drinking-pots of wood, with wooden hoops, are yet used in some parts of Britain. A large drinking-glass was found in a Roman-British barrow, in Kent, England; a stained-glass one was excavated from a similar situation. Bede, Luitpraud, and Fordem record them. The grace-cup was handed round at the end of a meal. Oil-tank car. Tank-car. （Railroad-engineering.) A large tank