An ordeal, terrible, especially malicious treatment imposed upon someone.
An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.
The death on the Cross of Christ.
The military punishment of being tied to a fixed object, often with the limbs in a stretched position.
Poisoning by noxious gas.
boasting; insincere or empty talk
Any similar process of singeing.
The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibres.
The liberation of hydrogen from an overcharged battery due to electrolysis of the electrolyte.