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A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus, resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining the genital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.

Aloes wood, or agallochum. See Agallochum.

A tin-white arsenide of iron, isomorphous with arsenopyrite.

A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowish earth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.

The peculiar larva of Polygordius. See Polygordius.

Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algæ.

A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

One who maneuvers. This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth.

See Maneuver.

An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrhoea usitatissima is the lignum-vitæ of Peru, and yelds a valuable black varnish.

Alternately responsive, as verses.

A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.

The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.

One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.

The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.

A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates. -- Mes`o*gloeal, a.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

One of the Metazoa.