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A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.

Situated around the vitellus, or between the vitellus and zona pellucida of an ovum.

Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.

A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, and practically identical with ordinary paraffin.

Distinctly crystalline; -- used of rocks. Opposed to Ant: cryptocrystalline.

Either of two metameric nitrogenous hydrocarbon bases, C12H8N2, analogous to phenanthridine, but more highly nitrogenized.

Any one of three isometric bases (C6H7N) related to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.

A line of pipe with pumping machinery and apparatus for conveying liquids, esp. petroleum, between distant points.

To convey by a pipe line; to furnish with a pipe line or pipe lines.

The quality or state of being poorly; ill health.

The quality or state of being portly; dignity of mien or of personal appearance; stateliness. Such pride is praise; such portliness is honor. Spenser.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

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The quality of being prickly, or of having many prickles.

The quality or state of being priestly. R. Browning.

The quality of being princely; the state, manner, or dignity of a prince.

In root construction, a horizontal member supported on the principals and supporting the common rafters.

A nitrogenous base, C4H7N, obtained as a colorless liquid by the reduction of pyrrol.

The quality of being queenly; the; characteristic of a queen; stateliness; eminence among women in attractions or power.

substances; hence, by extension, any one of the series of alkaloidal bases of which quinoline proper is the type. [Written also chinoline.]