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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.

A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). -- Mi`cro*peg`ma*tit"ic, a.

A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead.

To call by a wrong title.

Divided into many parts; having several parts.

Having many titles.

Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.

together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly. But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. Matt. ix. 36.

Multitudinous.

Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves. "The multitudinous seas." Shak. A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. G. Kennan.

To wink; to nictate. Nictitating membrance (Anat.), a thin membrance, found in many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.

The act of winking.

Nonexistence; the negation of being.

Turning or bending at night into special positions.

The tendency of certain plant organs, as leaves, to assume special "sleeping" positions or make curvatures under the influence of darkness. It is well illustrated in the leaflets of clover and other leguminous plants.

Done or obtained by surprise; with secrecy, or by concealment of the truth. [R.] Cotgrave.

An orthoceras; also, any fossil shell allied to Orthoceras.

Inflammation of a bone and its periosteum.

See Osteitis.

Inflammation of the ear.