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The pedestal of a column, pillar, or statue. [Obs.] If no basis bear my rising name. Pope.

A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the stalks.

sea water, by evaporation in shallow pits or basins, by the heat of the sun; the large crystalline salt of commerce. Bacon. Ure.

Minute acicular or dendritic crystalline forms sometimes observed in glassy volcanic rocks.

Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass. His spear a bent, both stiff and strong. Drayton.

A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

A transparent crystalline substance,

A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.

A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.

ion or decoction. It is also found in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde, oil of bitter almonds; the aldehyde, C6H5.CHO, intermediate in composition between benzoic or…

A white crystalline substance, C14H12O2, obtained from benzoic aldehyde and some other sources.

A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.

intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.

f a double twelve-sided pyramid; -- so called because the planes of this form occur on crystals of beryl.

Sprinkled over; strewed. His face besprent with liquid crystal shines. Shenstone. The floor with tassels of fir was besprent. Longfellow.

naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

ron and magnesia, generally of a black or dark green color; -- a common constituent of crystalline rocks. See Mica.