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Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n.

An Indo-European people, allied to the Lithuanians and Old Prussians, and inhabiting a part of the Baltic provinces of Russia.

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.

Litharge. [Obs.] Chaucer.

hat resembles a raisin in color and form. [Written also lichi, and lychee.] -- lite. See -lith.

See Lithontriptic.

A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.

obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.

A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc. Barbary mastic (Bot.), the Pistachia Atlantica. -- Peruvian mastic tree (Bot.), a small tree (Schinus Molle) with peppery red berries; -- called also pepper tree. -- West Indian mastic (Bot.), a lofty tree (Bursera gum…

n through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.

A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. æsalon).

metals (Chem.), the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. -- Muntz metal, an alloy for sheathing and other purposes, consisting of about sixty per cent of copper, and forty of zinc. Sometimes a l…

A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. Knight.

ignating the Neanderthal race, or man, a species supposed to have been widespread in paleolithic Europe.

ht to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

apering as it rises, and terminating in a pyramid called pyramidion. It is ordinarily monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.

A nocturnal South American monkey (Callithrix discolor), noted for its agility; -- called also ventriloquist monkey.

d usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.