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Having fortitude; courageous. [R.] Gibbon.

The simplest stitch in knitting.

The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.

ave been used by the people of Gath, and thence obtained by David. It is mentioned in the title of Psalms viii., lxxxi., and lxxxiv. Dr. W. Smith.

See Verdin.

One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to the Ammonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation, the latest, in the Triassic.

See Staurolite.

ctor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.

Same as Hematite.

Of a blood-red color; crimson; (Bot.) brownish red.

Mineral t

ed also specular iron, oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone. See Brown hematite, under Brown.

Of or pertaining to hematite, or resembling it.

arallel threads, and fastening the cross threads in successive small clusters; as, to hemstitch a handkerchief.

ing a broad hem separated from the body of the article by a line of open work; as, a hemistitched handkerchief.

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

Inflammation of the liver.

are not agreed as to their race. While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittite characters, little progress has yet been made.

The state or quality of being identical, or the same; sameness. Identity is a relation between our cognitions of a thing, not between things themselves. Sir W. Hamilton.

Want of aptitude.