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A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.

A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.…

Of or pertaining to the meninges.

The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. See under Cerebro-spinal.

Same as Entresol.

Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

Kind treatment. [Obs.]

An erroneous computation.

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. -- Morning gun, a gun fired at the fir…

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

Morning time. [Poetic]

Morning. [Obs.]

ck. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden. Deep mourning. See under Deep.

In a mourning manner.

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

Not admitting of, or characterized by, inflection.

One who is not an inhabitant; a stranger; a foreigner; a nonresident.