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Exaggerated declamation; rant.

A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.

With gnashing.

A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight.

The art or business of a gunsmith.

Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." Milton.

In a gushing manner; copiously. Byron.

Having unfeathered nostrils, as certain birds.

oduced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

The state of being healthy or healthful; freedom from disease.

An artificial, orange dyestuff, analogous to tropaolin, and like it used as an indicator in alkalimetry; -- called also methyl orange.

Contempt; scorn. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.

Having the nasal bones contiguous.

The process of washing ore, or of uncovering mineral veins, by a heavy discharge of water from a reservoir; flushing; -- also called booming.

resemblingthe hyacinth; in color like the hyacinth. Milton. His curling locks like hyacinthine flowers. Cowper. The hyacinthine boy, for whom Morn well might break and April bloom. Emerson.

A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related to xanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body, but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.

Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. [Written also janthina.]

A nitrogenous substance resembling vitellin, present in the egg yolk of cartilaginous fishes.

A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.