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The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate. [Obs.]

The round of a ladder. [R.] I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves. Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels).

eed of blessing, and "Amen" Stuck in my throat. Shak. The trembling weapon passed Through nine bull hides, . . . and stuck within the last. Dryden.

l, the hydrochloride of an amino compound containing benzol, used, in solution with strychnine, as a local anæsthetic, esp. by injection into the sheath of the spinal cord, producing anæsthesia below the point of introduction.

Strychnine.

Of or pertaining to strychnine; produced by strychnine; as, strychnic compounds; strychnic poisoning; specifically (Chem.),

ther tests tending to promote uniformity; esp. (Ch. of Eng.), formal assent to the Thirty-nine Articles and the Book of Common Prayer, required before ordination.

hint. [Colloq.] The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor. A. W. Ward.

The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.

f small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.

years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.

One more than nine; twice five. With twice ten sail I crossed the Phrygian Sea. Dryden.

A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. See Ninepins. [U. S.]

Next in order after the ninth; coming after nine others.

nch silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.

A substance (notably nux vomica, strychnine, and brucine) which, either as a remedy or a poison, acts primarily on the spinal cord, and which, when taken in comparatively large quantity, produces tetanic spasms or convulsions.

An aspect of two planets with regard to the earth when they are distant from each other ninety degrees, or the fourth of a circle. Hutton.

That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.

antities, having a sharp, astringent taste, and a tetanic action resembling that of strychnine.

greenish metallic luster. It is produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, as a brown amorphous powder.