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A sharp-edged, tubular, marine shell, of the genus Vermetus; also, the pinna. See Vermetus.

The right or power of governing; authority. I here resign my goverment to thee. Shak.

A reddish dye made from the coccus insect, or kermes; hence, a red color of any tint or hue, as crimson, scarlet, etc.; sometimes used by the poets as equivalent to Tyrian purple. All in a robe of darkest grain. Milton. Doing as the dyers do, who, having first dipped their silks in colors of less value, then give' them…

Furniture; apparatus or accouterments for work, traveling, war, etc. [Scot.] Jamieson.

In the American system of graded common schools an intermediate grade between the primary school and the high school, in which the principles of English grammar are taught.

blue by iodine, and is converted into dextrin and sugar by boiling acids and amylolytic ferments.

fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting rod at an intermediate point. -- Grasshopper lobster (Zoöl.) a young lobster. [Local, U. S.] -- Grasshopper warbler (Zoöl.), cricket bird.

An excavation in the earth as a place of burial; also, any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher. Hence: Death; destruction. He bad lain in the grave four days. John xi. 17. Grave wax, adipocere.

A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.

The color of growing plants; the color of the solar spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.

ed receptacles (Marchantia polymorpha). -- Ground mail, in Scotland, the fee paid for interment in a churchyard. -- Ground mass (Geol.), the fine-grained or glassy base of a rock, in which distinct crystals of its constituents are embedded. -- Ground parrakeet (Zoöl.), one of several Australian parrakeets, of the ge…

A vat for fermenting liquors.

Fermented wort used for making vinegar. Gyle tan (Brewing), a large vat in which wort ferments.

te has repeatedly changed from absolute despotism to republicanism, not forgetting the intermediate stages of oligarchy, limited monarchy, and even gynocracy; for I myself remember Alsatia governed for nearly nine months by an old fishwoman. Sir H. Scott.

r work or attendance; as, the half-time system. -- Half tint (Fine Arts), a middle or intermediate tint, as in drawing or painting. See Demitint. -- Half truth, a statement only partially true, or which gives only a part of the truth. Mrs. Browning. -- Half year, the space of six moths; one term of a school when the…

An intermediate or middle tone in a painting, engraving, photograph, etc.; a middle tint, neither very dark nor very light.

Equally distant from the extremes; situated at an intermediate point; midway. Halfway covenant, a practice among the Congregational churches of New England, between 1657 and 1662, of permitting baptized persons of moral life and orthodox faith to enjoy all the privileges of church membership, save the partaking of the…

hand one year's tribute." Knolles. Albinus . . . found means to keep in his hands the goverment of Britain. Milton.

g; a declaimer. With them join'd all th' harangues of the throng, That thought to get preferment by the tongue. Dryden.

Fermentation. Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. -- Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. -- Dynamical theory of h…