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Chosen beforehand.

of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the t…

Glassy; glazed. [Obs.] And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.

Something sent by God; an unexpected acquisiton or piece of good fortune.

A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

Sounding harshly in the throat; inharmonious; rough. [Obs.] Carew.

A large sturgeon (Acipenser huso) from the region of the Black Sea. It is sometimes twelve feet long.

To make hoarse. I shall be obliged to hoarsen my voice. Richardson.

ghness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

A thin, pointed nail, with a heavy flaring head, for securing a horsehoe to the hoof; a horsehoe nail.

See Hose. [Archaic]

See Hyperæsthesia.

The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian poet and dramatist, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.

The state of being immense.

Having no essence or being. H. Brooke. The womb of inessential Naught. Shelley.

Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish. The silence and the calm Of mute, insensate things. Wordsworth. The meddling folly or insensate ambition of statesmen. Buckle. -- In*sen"sate*ly, adv. -- In*sen"sate*ness, n.

To make to understand; to instruct. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

The state or quality of being insensible; want of sensibility; torpor; unconsciousness; as, the insensibility produced by a fall, or by opiates.

Destitute of the power of feeling or perceiving; wanting bodily sensibility. Milton.

Insensibility. Bp. Hall.