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A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly made in India.

Any plant of a genus of herbs (Impatiens) having capsules which, if touched when ripe, discharge their seeds. -- See Impatiens.

Without striations; unstriped; as, nonstriated muscle fibers.

scatus, or H. orientalis), native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe, and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor.

ks are yellowish white, and the fore and hind legs above the knees and the haunches are striped with purplish black and cream color.

Of, pertaining to, or expressed from, unripe fruit; as, omphacine oil.

umber, inclosed in a leathery rind, which is easily separable, and is reddish yellow when ripe.

Too mellow; overripe.

A stripe or band, as on a garment. Chaucer.

Striped. [Obs.] "[Buskins] . . . paled part per part." Spenser.

The act of placing pales or stripes on cloth; also, the stripes themselves. [Obs.] Chaucer. Paling board, one of the slabs sawed from the sides of a log to fit it to be sawed into boards. [Eng.]

The dried ripened fruit of Capsicum annuum or various other species of pepper; also, the mildly pungent condiment prepared from it.

as Io) having ocelli like those of peacock. -- Peacock fish (Zoöl.), the European blue-striped wrasse (Labrus variegatus); -- so called on account of its brilliant colors. Called also cook wrasse and cook. -- Peacock pheasant (Zoöl.), any one of several species of handsome Asiatic pheasants of the genus Polyplectron.…

ed vegetable jelly, found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy fruits, as apples, cranberries, etc. It is extracted as variously colored, translucent substances, which are soluble in hot water but become viscous on cooling.

An amorphous carbohydrate found in the vegetable kingdom, esp. in unripe fruits. It is associated with cellulose, and is converted into substances of the pectin group.

A degenerate order of Crustacea, including the Rhizocephala and Cirripedia.

A division of Cirripedia, including the stalked or goose barnacles.

ce; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book; penitential tears. "Penitential stripes." Cowper. Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse. Sir W. Scott.

Variegated; striped. [Obs.] Evelyn.

vate leaves and apetalous flowers in spikes opposite the leaves. The berries are red when ripe. Also, by extension, any one of the several hundred species of the genus Piper, widely dispersed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.