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Pertaining to, or abounding in, fleas; pulicose.

It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.

Same as Pumice.

h of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.

See Punese. [Obs. or R.]

Of a bright red or purple color. [R.]

The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.

See Queest.

A small branch of a root; a rootlet.

nce gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted. "O, rejoice beyond a common joy." Shak. I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy. Ps. xxxi. 7.

Rejoicing. [Obs.]

One who rejoices.

The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

Reticence.

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone.

nhabitants. In America it grows chiefly on low, moist land, which can be overflowed. Ant rice. (Bot.) See under Ant. -- French rice. (Bot.) See Amelcorn. -- Indian rice., a tall reedlike water grass (Zizania aquatica), bearing panicles of a long, slender grain, much used for food by North American Indians. It is comm…

Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.

The Java sparrow.