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seasoning

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seasoning [′sēz·ən·iŋ]
(civil engineering)
(electronics)
Overcoming a temporary unsteadiness of a component that may appear when it is first installed.
(engineering)
Drying of wood either in the air or in a kiln.

seasoning
1. The drying of wood, either in air or in a kiln.
2. The curing or hardening of concrete.


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In like manner, we shall represent human nature at first to the keen appetite of our reader, in that more plain and simple manner in which it is found in the country, and shall hereafter hash and ragoo it with all the high French and Italian seasoning of affectation and vice which courts and cities afford.
These qualities, it is true, are those pre-eminently of the "Works and Days": the literary values of the "Theogony" are of a more technical character, skill in ordering and disposing long lists of names, sure judgment in seasoning a monotonous subject with marvellous incidents or episodes, and no mean imagination in depicting the awful, as is shown in the description of Tartarus (ll.
But in that curious compound, the feminine character, it may easily happen that the flavor is unpleasant in spite of excellent ingredients; and a fine systematic stinginess may be accompanied with a seasoning that quite spoils its relish.
 
 
 
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