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A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

See Emboss.

The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South.

Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; not feasible. With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Matt. xix. 26. Without faith it is impossible t…

Not possibly. Sir. T. North.

In possibility; possible, although not yet in existence or come to pass; -- contradistinguished from in esse.

nt existence; incompatible; inconsistent. [Obs.] Ambition and faith . . . are . . . incompossible. Jer. Taylor. -- In`com*pos`si*bil"i*ty, n. [Obs.]

See Engross.

To cross each other, as lines.

Situated between bones; as, an interosseous ligament.

A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol. "Critic in jars and josses." Colman (1761). Joss house, a Chinese temple or house for the Chinese mode of worship. -- Joss stick, a reed covered with a paste made of the dust of odoriferous woods, or a cylinder made wholly of the paste; -- burned by the Chinese before an i…

Gold and silver paper burned by the Chinese, in the form of coins or ingots, in worship and at funerals.

A command to a horse, probably meaning "stand still." [Obs.] Chaucer.

A native garment or rug of skin sewed together in the form of a square. [South Africa]

in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.

The act of losing; failure; destruction; privation; as, the loss of property; loss of money by gaming; loss of health or reputation. Assured loss before the match be played. Shak.

Detrimental. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Free from loss. [Obs.] Milton.

Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.

Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns. [Obs.]