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Of or pertaining to the number nine.

Relating to, or dependent on, the number nine; novenary. [R.] The triple and novene division ran throughout. Milman.

A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five. [Obs.] Shak.

last day of the year. One of these always expressed the market day, which returned every nine days (every eight days by our reckoning).

nd Coromandel coasts of the East Indies. From this seed the deadly poisons known as strychnine and brucine are obtained. The seeds are sometimes called Quaker buttons.

ute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

A charge or bearing of simple form, one of nine or ten which are in constant use. The bend, chevron, chief, cross, fesse, pale, and saltire are uniformly admitted as ordinaries. Some authorities include bar, bend sinister, pile, and others. See Subordinary. In ordinary. (a) In actual and constant service; statedly atte…

s team was taken out. "My shoulder blade is out." Shak. He hath been out (of the country) nine years. Shak.

es, but is distinct from, that to the name of which it is prefixed; as paraldehyde, paraconine, etc.; also, an isomeric modification. (b) Specifically: (Organ. Chem.) That two groups or radicals substituted in the benzene nucleus are opposite, or in the respective positions 1 and 4; 2 and 5; or 3 and 6, as paraxylene;…

cluding the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.

An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheæ.

, and is a remedy for malarial diseases. This property is due to several alkaloids, as quinine, cinchonine, etc., and their compounds; -- called also Jesuit's bark, and cinchona. See Cinchona.

A Spanish silver coin, and money of account, equal to about nineteen cents, and divided into 100 centesimos.

A canine appetite; bulimia. [Obs.]

y the decomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as a substitute for quinine.

A blue coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll. [Written also phyllocyanine.]

o, the dice used in this game, esp. when marked with the ace, king, queen, jack, ten, and nine instead of the usual digits.

us, or Thalarctos, maritimus) inhabiting the arctic regions. It sometimes measures nearly nine feet in length and weighs 1,600 pounds. It is partially amphibious, very powerful, and the most carnivorous of all the bears. The fur is white, tinged with yellow. Called also White bear. See Bear. -- Polar body, cell, or gl…

To examine beforehand, as witnesses or evidence. A committee of nine precognoscing the chances. Masson.

To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine.