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A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.

To direct, guide, or lead. Thou marshalest me the way that I was going. Shak.

winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore.

a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion. He forgeth and moldeth metals. Sir M. Hale. Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me man Milton.

An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

s, a moral rather than a religious life. The wiser and more moral part of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

a; -- called also river mussel. See Naiad, and Unio. Mussel digger (Zoöl.), the grayback whale. See Gray whale, under Gray.

and is largely eaten by the whitefish. The marine species form part of the food of right whales.

Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.

Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; -- used specifically to denote any one of a series of acids derived from naphthalene, and called naphthalene acids.

See Naphthalene.

A compound of naphthalene or its radical with a metallic element; as, mercuric naphthide.

Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, naphthalene; -- used specifically to designate any one of a series of carboxyl derivatives, called naphthoic acids.

Any one of a series of hydroxyl derivatives of naphthalene, analogous to phenol. In general they are crystalline substances with a phenol (carbolic) odor. Naphthol blue, Naphthol orange, Naphthol yellow (Chem.), brilliant dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.…

A yellow crystalline substance, C10H6O2, analogous to quinone, obtained by oxidizing naphthalene with chromic acid.

A hydrocarbon radical regarded as the essential residue of naphthalene.

One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids.

e upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

Necessitousness; want. Sir M. Hale.

Fetid feldspar, a mineral which, when struck, exhales a fetid odor.