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A grayish or greenish compact rock, composed of feldspar and augite, and allied to basalt.

Composed of, or characterized by, grease; oily; unctuous; as, a greasy dish.

ourt of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond…

A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.

substance found in great abundance on some coasts or islands frequented by sea fowls, and composed chiefly of their excrement. It is rich in phosphates and ammonia, and is used as a powerful fertilizer.

Gumlike, or composed of gum; gummy.

of International Disputes.", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. It is composed of persons of known competency in questions of international law, nominated by the signatory powers. From these persons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to a difference submitted to the court. On the failu…

Of a clear tint of brown, resembling brown human hair. It is composed of equal proportions of red and green.

An outwork composed of two faces, forming a salient angle whose gorge resembles a half-moon; -- now called a ravelin.

A jury, for the trial of a fore foreigner, composed equally of citizens and aliens.

tands the principles of harmony or is skillful in applying them in composition; a musical composer.

One of a religious sect, founded in Würtemburg in the last century, composed of followers of George Rapp, a weaver. They had all their property in common. In 1803, a portion of this sect settled in Pennsylvania and called the village thus established, Harmony.

tate of being harsh. O, she is Ten times more gentle than her father 's crabbed, And he's composed of harshness. Shak. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offense, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Pope.

One of the sets of parallel doubled threads which, with mounting, compose the harness employed to guide the warp threads to the lathe or batten in a loom.

The normal coloring matter of the red blood corpuscles of vertebrate animals. It is composed of hematin and globulin, and is also called hæmatoglobulin. In arterial blood, it is always combined with oxygen, and is then called oxyhemoglobin. It crystallizes under different forms from different animals, and when crystall…

One of a party among the Jews, composed of partisans of Herod of Galilee. They joined with the Pharisees against Christ.

e, or relation, in type of structure; lack of analogy between parts, owing to their being composed of different elements, or of like elements in different proportions; variation in structure from the normal form; -- opposed to homology.

An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed of elements different from those are found in it in its normal condition. Dunglison.

A figure composed of two equal triangles intersecting so that each side of one triangle is parallel to a side of the other, and the six points coincide with those of a hexagon.

must regularly be a dactyl, and the sixth always a spondee. In this species of verse are composed the Iliad of Homer and the Æneid of Virgil. In English hexameters accent takes the place of quantity. Leaped like the | roe when he | hears in the | woodland the | voice of the | huntsman. Longfellow. Strongly it | bears…