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To throw off in vapor, or as in the form of vapor. The heat will fume away most of the scent. Montimer. How vicious hearts fume frenzy to the brain! Young.

Composed of leaves united by their edges (coalescent). Gray.

arlic pear tree, a tree in Jamaica (Cratæva gynandra), bearing a fruit which has a strong scent of garlic, and a burning taste.

On of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

A hound that pursues by the sight rather than by the scent. Sir W. Scott.

One who traces genealogies or the descent of persons or families.

To investigate, or relate the history of, descents.

An account or history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor; enumeration of ancestors and their children in the natural order of succession; a pedigree.

A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows anot…

ral species of small Carnivora of the genus Genetta, allied to the civets, but having the scent glands less developed, and without a pouch.

subdivision of a tribe, among American aborigines. It includes those who have a common descent, and bear the same totem.

To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. [R. or Poet.] To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young.

Glaucous or glaucescent.

en the faint glooming in the sky First lightened into day. Trench. The balmy glooming, crescent-lit. Tennyson.

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope.

An incandescent lamp. See Incandescent, a.

A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid,…

A white, amorphous, deliquescent powder, (CO.H)2, obtained by the partial oxidation of glycol. It is a double aldehyde, between glycol and oxalic acid.

A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.

A tree (the Crescentia Cujete, or calabash tree) of the West Indies and Central America.