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A sort of salt, finely granulated, formed out of the bittern or leach brine.

se or causes; inplying or containing a cause or causes; expressing a cause; causative. Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causal words. Watts.

The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect. The causality of the divine mind. Whewell.

According to the order or series of causes; by tracing effects to causes.

A California rosaceous shrub (Adenostoma fasciculatum) which often forms an impenetrable chaparral.

Pertaining to a chrysalis; resembling a chrysalis.

The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, from which the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).

he Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.

Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue. "A colossal stride." Motley.

Having the character of a commensal.

The act of eating together; table fellowship.

ship at table; the act or practice of eating at the same table. [Obs.] "Promiscuous commensality." Sir T. Browne.

The act of comprising or comprehending; a compendium or epitome. A comprisal . . . and sum of all wickedness. Barrow.

Turning or looking opposite ways. [Obs.] The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton.

Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

Pertaining to the crissum; as, crissal feathers.

The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne. Fox.

A despising; contempt. [R.] A despisal of religion. South.

A devising. Whitney.

Turning from the left to the right, in the ascending line, as in the spiral inclination of the stem of the common morning-glóry.