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Jollity; noisy mirth. Chaucer.

An organic base obtained from quinoline. It is used as a febrifuge, and resembles kairine.

A very pure white clay, ordinarily in the form of an impalpable powder, and used to form the paste of porcelain; China clay; porcelain clay. It is chiefly derived from the decomposition of common feldspar.

quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.

The state or quality of being kingly.

The character or bearing suitable for a knight; chivalry. Spenser.

A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.

A nitrogenous organic base from coal tar, and identical with quinoline. Cf. Quinoline.

Likelihood; probability.

Shore-inhabiting; of or pertaining to the Limicolæ.

The quality or state of being lively or animated; sprightliness; vivacity; animation; spirit; as, the liveliness of youth, contrasted with the gravity of age. B. Jonson.

Loathsomeness. [Obs.]

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

The state of being unfrequented by human beings; as, the loneliness of a road.

The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.

The state or quality of being lovely. If there is such a native loveliness in the sex as to make them victorious when in the wrong, how resistless their power when they are on the side of truth! Spectator.

The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind. Walk . . . with all lowliness and meekness. Eph. iv. 1, 2.

An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.

The line by which a fowling net was pulled over so as to inclose the birds.

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.