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A seasoning. [Obs.] outh.

Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism (Zoöl.), the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.

One who, or that which, seasons, or gives a relish; a seasoning.

The act or process by which anything is seasoned.

Without succession of the seasons.

An imperfect octave.

A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.

Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n.

Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine.

One of the triangular platforms in front of, and abaft, the paddle boxes of a steamboat.

See under State, n.

A piece of curved timber bolted to the stem, keelson, and apron in a ship's frame near the bow.

A son of one's husband or wife by a former marriage.

The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece sliding in a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle. Pressure on the handle increases the grip.

The terminal joint or movable piece at the end of the abdomen of Crustacea and other articulates. See Thoracostraca.

Of or pertaining to Alfred (Lord) Tennyson, the English poet (1809-92); resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.

A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by a large current passing through the metal.

Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism. -- n.

r, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.