Search the Dictionary

er or meliot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from melilot as a white crystalline substance.

A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

A wrong allotment.

A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.

A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.

A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).

Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

Southwestern United States to Patagonia. It is covered with blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

Cloth treated with oil or paint, and used for marking garments, covering flooors, etc.

The operation of dividing the navel-string.

A picture taken on "milky" glass.

a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court, in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.

Packs or bales of Spanish wool.

A work in five different tongues.

Fond of the arts. [R.]

Of or pertaining to phyllotaxy.

The order or arrangement of leaves on the stem; the science of the relative position of leaves.

A fine material for ladies' shawls, scarfs, handkerchiefs, etc., made from the fiber of the pineapple leaf, and perhaps from other fibrous tropical leaves. It is delicate, soft, and transparent, with a slight tinge of pale yellow.