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e proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

Lousily. [Obs.] Haywar

A South American bat of the genus Noctilio, having cheek pouches and large incisor teeth.

orescence. The brilliant diffuse phosphorescence of the sea is often due to myriads of Noctilucæ.

A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.

Of or pertaining to Noctiluca.

Shining in the night.

Same as Octant, 2. [R.]

According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

Excessively subtile.

To tilt over; to overturn.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.

A roofing tile, of peculiar form, having a transverse section resembling an elongated S laid on its side (

A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.

See Pantile.

e, any contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating. The pestilence That walketh in darkness. Ps. xci. 6.

Pestilential; noxious; pernicious; mischievous. "Corrupt and pestilent." Milton. "What a pestilent knave is this same!" Shak.

Having the nature or qualities of a pestilence. "Sends the pestilential vapors." Longfellow.

Pestilently.

Pestilential. [Obs.]