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s through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning.

form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.

To cut off the tops or tips of; to bite or pull off; to browse; to pluck; to mow; to reap. I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one. Ezek. xvii. 22.

uphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries. Croton oil (Med.), a viscid, acrid, brownish yellow oil obtained from the seeds of Croton Tiglium, a small tree of the East Indies. It is a most powerful drastic cathartic, and is used externally as a pustulant.

Bearing the cross; marked with the figure of a cross. Sir. T. Browne.

Of the length of a cubit. Sir. T. Browne.

Hooded; cowled; covered, as with a hood. Sir T. Browne.

or short course. Upon a curricle in this world depends a long course of the next. Sir T. Browne.

Becoming dark or gloomy; frowing. His honest brows darkling as he looked towards me. Thackeray.

dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.

Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.

Capable of being deceived; deceivable. Sir T. Browne. -- De*cep`ti*bil"i*ty (, n.

A falling off. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

State of being deceived; hallucination. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being declared. Sir T. Browne.

Decretory; authoritative. Sir T. Browne.

Serving to determine; critical. "The critical or decretory days." Sir T. Browne.

The act or posture of lying down. The ancient manner of decumbency. Sir T. Browne.

Intersecting at acute angles. Sir T. Browne.

Crosswise; in the form of an X. "Anointed decussatively." Sir T. Browne.