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st. Hebert. -- Dry stove, a hothouse adapted to preserving the plants of arid climates. Brande & C. -- Dry vat, a vat, basket, or other receptacle for dry articles. -- Dry wine, that in which the saccharine matter and fermentation were so exactly balanced, that they have wholly neutralized each other, and no sweetne…

ood Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.

The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain. Brande.

A porpoise. [Scott.] Dunter goose (Zoöl.) the eider duck. J. Brand.

to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas of grandeur in our minds by the size, its height, . . . its antiquity, and its durability. Blair.

den. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." Fuller. -- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut. -- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight. -- In dust and ashes. See unde…

French name for brandy. Cf. Aqua vitæ, under Aqua. Bescherelle.

base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom. By many writers it was formerly included in the Radiata. [Written also Echinoderma.]

A kind of posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale. Lamb.

ould be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try whether she could electrify Mr. Grandcourt by mentioning it to him at table. G. Eliot.

Any cordial or substance which invigorates. The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature. Addison.

m. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Brande & C.

Message; errand. Shak.

matic oils, oils obtained by distilling various organic substances at high temperatures. Brande & C.

To write or print on the face of (a draft, bill, etc.); as, to enface drafts with memoranda.

The ring of dots round the edge of a medal, etc. Brande & C.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

One dispatched upon an errand or mission; a messenger; esp., a person deputed by a sovereign or a government to negotiate a treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.