in a general sense, is a space made by the separation of parts. Green timber is very apt to split and cleave in several places, after it is wrought into form; and these cracks in it are very disagreeable to the sight. The common method of the country carpenters is to fill up these cracks with a mixture of grease and sawdust; but the neatest way of all is, the soaking both sides well with the fat of beef-broth, and then dipping pieces of sponge into the same broth, and filling up all the cracks with them; they swell out so as to fill the whole crack; and accommodate themselves so well to it, that the deficiency is hardly seen.