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being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous, of the same chemical series; thus…

ho discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.

A small American bird (Spinus, or Chrysomitris, spinus); -- called also pine siskin, and American siskin.

A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver.

To define beforehand.

To limit beforehand. [Obs.] Knolles.

Prearranged. [Obs.] " Set and prefinite time." Holland.

Previous limitation. [Obs.] Fotherby.

An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot.

The quality or state of being puffy.

a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. Puffing adder. (Zoöl.) Same as Puff adder (b), under Puff. -- Puffing pig (Zoöl.), the common porpoise.

In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.

A colorless crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained from the molasses of the sugar beet.

A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden.

innilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

The European linnet.

The process of taking in a reef. Reefing bowsprit, a bowsprit so rigged that it can easily be run in or shortened by sliding inboard, as in cutters.

To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined. Z…