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Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

A yellow coloring matter extracted from chlorophyll.

Compressing; nipping; griping; niggardly; as, pinching cold; a pinching parsimony. Pinching bar, a pinch bar. See Pinch, n., 4. -- Pinching nut, a check nut. See under Check, n.

In a pinching way.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball.

The quality or state of being pithy.

The laying of floors in a building; also, a floor of boards or planks.

a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls (Coining), rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.

The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

Having the nose broad; -- opposed to Ant: leptorhine. -- n. (Zoöl.)

septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey. [Written also Platyrrhini.]

A thing to play with; a toy; anything that serves to amuse. A child knows his nurse, and by degrees the playthings of a little more advanced age. Locke.

Household furniture; stock. [Scot.]

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in clean…

The quality or state of being praiseworthy.

zing; also, a sermon; a public religious discourse; serious, earnest advice. Milner. Preaching cross, a cross, sometimes surmounting a pulpit, erected out of doors to designate a preaching place. -- Preaching friars. See Dominican.

Situated in front of the nasal chambers.

The false china root, a plant of the genus Smilax (S. Pseudo- china), found in America.