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s become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. [Written also orpin.]

A name given to the two planes in the monoclinic system which are parallel to the vertical and orthodiagonal axes.

To spin out; to finish.

To spin out to too great length; to protract unduly. W. Cartwright.

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

See Peephole.

A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.

A system of education on so-called natural principles, attempted in Germany in the last century by Basedow, of Dessau.

An advocate of, or believer in, philanthropinism.

A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light. Encyc. Brit.

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.

Little; petty; pitiful. [Obs.] Crabbe.

Playing on a musical pipe. "Lowing herds and piping swains." Swift.

A name given to apples of several different kinds, as Newtown pippin, summer pippin, fall pippin, golden pippin. We will eat a last year's pippin. Shak. Normandy pippins, sun-dried apples for winter use.

The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.

A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. "To be so pestered with a popinjay." Shak.

a. & n. from Pop. Popping crease. (Cricket) See under Crease.

Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.