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Definition of Cauldrons
1. cauldron [n] - See also: cauldron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cauldrons
Literary usage of Cauldrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chemical Technology; Or, Chemistry in Its Applications to the Arts and by Edmund Ronalds, Thomas Richardson, Henry Watts, Friedrich Ludwig Knapp (1863)
"311 represents an arrangement of three cauldrons ; G designates the main-pipe or
feeder, which is attached to the steam-boiler W of the establishment It is ..."
2. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities ... in the Museum of the Royal by Royal Irish Academy Museum, William Robert Wilde (1857)
"cauldrons, &c.,—in Irish Coin',*—are of great antiquity, and from the date of the
... We read of celebrated cauldrons, with mystical properties, ..."
3. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas Hobbes (1844)
"A man that hath so many and so fleet are staid by Dio- Twenty black cauldrons.
Twelve steeds that have won I think not poor, but gold may quickly win, ..."
4. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"... pride Of brazen cauldrons; a cuirass he gave Of linked gold enwrought and
triple chain; A noble helmet, too, with flaming crest And lofty cone, ..."
5. A Descriptive and Historical Account of Hydraulic and Other Machines for by Thomas Ewbank (1842)
"... figure of cauldrons—Cause of this—Superiority of their form over straight
sided boilers—Brazen cauldrons highly prized—WATER POTS of tke Hindoos—Women ..."
6. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... Some blew the tiro to burn, and some their cauldrons set to boil. Good cheer
they made, and fed them fast as on th*; ..."
7. The Women of Turkey and Their Folk-lore by Lucy Mary Jane Garnett, John S. Stuart-Glennie (1891)
"... or " Feast of the cauldrons," which they celebrate annually on leaving their
winter quarters, and which lasts for three days. A number of families make ..."
8. A Treatise on Physical Geography by Francis B. Fogg (1857)
"GIANT'S cauldrons. Another singular phenomenon occurs, with no outlet, ...
cauldrons. These are singular excavations, sometimes of a spiral form, ..."
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