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The nine of trumps in sancho pedro.

A variety of auction pitch in which the nine (sancho) and five (pedro) of trumps are added as counting cards at their pip value, and the ten of trumps counts game.

ty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites.

A long, low war galley used by the Neapolitans and Sicilians in the early part of the nineteenth century.

Seven times ten; one more than sixty-nine.

man understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of. She loved her children best in every wise. Chaucer. Then Sarah denied, . . . for she was afraid. Gen. xviii. 15.

rtical; prpendicular. A sheer precipice of a thousand feet. J. D. Hooker. It was at least Nine roods of sheer ascent. Wordsworth.

Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidæ, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them o…

d by the union of the Tuscaroras and the Five Nations. -- Six points circle. (Geom.) See Nine points circle, under Nine.

Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.

An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

Having a feminine countenance or complexion; smooth-faced; girlish. Fenton.

Solanine.

An alkaloid produced by the decomposition of solanine, as a white crystalline substance having a harsh bitter taste.

nty-two in number, of which the Earth has one (see Moon.), Mars two, Jupiter five, Saturn nine, Uranus four, and Neptune one. The asteroids, between Mars and Jupiter, thus far discovered (1900), number about five hundred, the first four of which were found near the beginning of the century, and are called Ceres, Pallas…

n; to cross the north and south line; -- said chiefly of the moon; as, the moon souths at nine.

e; duration; time. "Grace God gave him here, this land to keep long space." R. of brunne. Nine times the space that measures day and night. Milton. God may defer his judgments for a time, and give a people a longer space of repentance. Tillotson.

The space from the thumb to the end of the little finger when extended; nine inches; eighth of a fathom.

reventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria. In fact, all medicines will be found specific in the perfection of the science. Coleridge. Specific character (Nat. Hist.), a characteristic or characteristics distinguishing one sp…

The quality or state of being spiny or thorny; spininess.