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d himself hoarse. To cough down, to silence or put down (an objectionable speaker) by simulated coughing.

ix odorata, a tree of Guiana. Coumaric acid (Chem.), one of a series of aromatic acids, related to cinnamic acid, the most important of which is a white crystalline substance, HO.C6H4.C2H2.CO2H, obtained from the tonka bean, sweet clover, etc., and also produced artifically.

hony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.

One collaterally related more remotely than a brother or sister; especially, the son or daughter of an uncle or aunt.

which the glaze or enamel appears to be cracked in all directions, making a sort of reticulated surface; as, Chinese crackle; Bohemian crackle.

A white, crystalline, nitrogenous body closely related to creatin but more basic in its properties, formed from the latter by the action of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

To indent; to notch; as, a crenelated leaf. Crenelated molding (Arch.), a kind of indented molding used in Norman buildings.

The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure. [Written also crenellation.]

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

ligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

The coloring matter of the blood; the clotted portion of coagulated blood, containing the coloring matter; gore.

r or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate. Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap. Woodward.

(Crystalloq.) A solid related to a tetrahedron, and contained under twelve equal triangles.

The coagulated or thickened part of milk, as distingushed from the whey, or watery part. It is eaten as food, especially when made into cheese. Curds and cream, the flower of country fare. Dryden.

Like curd; full of curd; coagulated. "A curdy mass." Arbuthnot.

ak. Custom of merchants, a system or code of customs by which affairs of commerce are regulated. -- General customs, those which extend over a state or kingdom. -- Particular customs, those which are limited to a city or district; as, the customs of London.

the genus Sepia, having an internal shell, large eyes, and ten arms furnished with denticulated suckers, by means of which it secures its prey. The name is sometimes applied to dibranchiate cephalopods generally.

elves in the earth. The common cutworms are the larvæ of various species of Agrotis and related genera of noctuid moths.

acid (Chem.), an acid, HOCN, derived from cyanogen, well known in its salts, but never isolated in the free state. -- Cyanic colors (Bot.), those colors (of flowers) having some tinge of blue; -- opposed to xanthic colors. A color of either series may pass into red or white, but not into the opposing color. Red and pu…