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Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.

See Mellite.

lace, remarkable for the beauty of its figures; -- so called because chiefly made in Honiton, England.

A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

A biennial weed (Cynoglossum officinale), with soft tongue- shaped leaves, and an offensive odor. It bears nutlets covered with barbed or hooked prickles. Called also dog's-tongue.

A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton. Lyell.

Forcible manipulation of a dislocated, stiff, or painful joint.

Same as Ascites.

of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed." With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text. Milton.

To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community. Addison.

A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste. Malcom.

A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.

To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol- fa.

The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.

To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

Any very hard rock.

A hard, earthy ore of iron. Clay ironstone. See under Clay. -- Ironstone china, a hard white pottery, first made in England during the 18th century.

Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension. Isotonic system (Mus.), a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones.

One of the pebbles or pieces used in the game of jackstones.