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A mineral of a white a slightly bluish color, usually massive. It is anhydrous sulphate of lime, and differs from gypsum in not containing water (whence the name).

Alliteration. [Obs.] Tyrwhitt.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation.

One of the small white egg-shaped pupæ or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

A species of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

Any substance (but especially sodium hyposulphite) used in removing the excess of chlorine left in paper pulp or stuffs after bleaching.

e a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

One of the whitish specks called aphthæ.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristic of thrush.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a decoction. [Obs.] J. Whitaker.

dain; to determine; to arrange. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithoph2 Sam. xvii. 14.

or to his creditor, to one of several debts which are due from the former to the latter. Chitty.

therly from Lyra and Cygnus and preceding the Dolphin; the Eagle. Aquila alba Etym: [L., white eagle], an alchemical name of calomel. Brande & C.

rate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

The treelike disposition of the gray and white nerve tissues in the cerebellum, as seen in a vertical section.

arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

A prefix signifying chief, arch; as, architect, archiepiscopal. In Biol. and Anat. it usually means primitive, original, ancestral; as, archipterygium, the primitive fin or wing.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

re; an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.