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Forensic. Berkley.

A fragrant, aromatic resin, or gum resin, burned as an incense in religious rites or for medicinal fumigation. The best kinds now come from East Indian trees, of the genus Boswellia; a commoner sort, from the Norway spruce (Abies excelsa) and other coniferous trees. The frankincense of the ancient Jews is still unident…

See under Lens.

Same as Galactometer.

Horticulture. [Obs.]

A clan or family connection, embracing several families of the same stock, who had a common name and certain common religious rites; a subdivision of the Roman curia or tribe.

An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime.

A European sandpiper or snipe (Totanus canescens); -- called also greater plover.

A name formerly applied rather loosely to certain dark-colored igneous rocks, including diorite, diabase, etc.

Turf green with grass.

Fit for a garden. [Obs.] Evelyn.

See Hyperæsthesia.

Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast; huge. "Immense the power" Pope. "Immense and boundless ocean." Daniel. O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense! Milton.

In immense manner or degree.

The state of being immense.

Immeasurable. [Obs.] Davies.

The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness. Lost in the wilds of vast immensity. Blackmore. The immensity of the material system. I. Taylor.

Huge. [Obs.] Herrick.