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Produced by fire; igneous. Mantell. .

Same as Pyroligneous.

Rendered transparent by heat.

Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.

Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts. Quadrigeminal bodies (Anat.), two pairs of lobes, or elevations, on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates, and the posterior the testes.

Having four hands; of or pertaining to the Quadrumana.

Given to rapine. [Obs.]

Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram. [R.] Ash.

Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin. Resinous electricity (Elec.), electricity which is exited by rubbing bodies of the resinous kind. See Negative electricity, under Negative.

By means, or in the manner, of resin.

The quality of being resinous.

Reddish. [R.] M. Stuart.

Having the appearance or color of iron rust; rusty-looking.

Ruffianly. [Obs.] Chapman.

Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton.

Born in the country. [Obs.]

Saline. [Obs.]

Growing in brackish places or in salt marches.

Producing blood; as, sanguigenous food.