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The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.

A nitrogenous substance free from phosphorus, supposed to be present in the brain; a body closely related to cerebrin.

Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

The dog grass. See under Dog.

Lips. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E. Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.

A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.

ransferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoi…

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

ut fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence. Milton. Marasmus senilis Etym: [L.], progressive atrophy of the aged.

The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.

version or translation from one language into another, word for word; -- opposed to paraphrase. Dryden.

Translated literally.

Metaphrase.

A literal translator.

Close, or literal.

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.