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The female form. [Obs.] O serpent under femininitee. Chaucer.

Womanliness; femininity. [Obs.] "Trained up in true feminity." Spenser.

A mineral of a brownish black color, essentially a tantalo- niobate of yttrium, erbium, and cerium; -- so called after Robert Ferguson.

Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Infinite. [Obs.] Sir T. browne.

In a finite manner or degree.

The state of being finite.

Limitation. Cheyne.

A poisonous mushroom (Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius), having usually a bright red or yellowish cap covered with irregular white spots. It has a distinct volva at the base, generally an upper ring on the stalk, and white spores. Called also fly agaric, deadly amanita.

A kind of mineral of the spinel group.

cter, or tastes. With what terms of respect knaves and sots will speak of their own fraternity! South.

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

h anything is furnished or supplied; supplies; outfit; equipment. The form and all the furniture of the earth. Tillotson. The thoughts which make the furniture of their minds. M. Arnold.

A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.

Zinc spinel; automolite.

Galena; lead ore.

That which garnishes; ornamental appendage; embellishment; furniture; dress. The pomp of groves and garniture of fields. Beattie.

Inflammation of the stomach and duodenum. It is one of the most frequent causes of jaundice.

Pertaining to generation, or to the generative organs. Genital cord (Anat.), a cord developed in the fetus by the union of portions of the Wolffian and Müllerian ducts and giving rise to parts of the urogenital passages in both sexes.

The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.