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ul fluorescent crystalline substance, intermediate in composition between thionol and thionine.

Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.

Next in order after nine hundred and ninty-nine; coming last of a thousand successive individuals or units; -- the ordinal of thousand; as, the thousandth part of a thing.

The third hour of the day, or nine a.m.; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour.

Comparison; as, three is to nine as nine is to twenty-seven; it is ten to one that you will offend him. All that they did was piety to this. B. Jonson.

. Tobacco box (Zoöl.), the common American skate. -- Tobacco camphor. (Chem.) See Nicotianine. -- Tobacco man, a tobacconist. [R.] -- Tobacco pipe. (a) A pipe used for smoking, made of baked clay, wood, or other material. (b) (Bot.) Same as Indian pipe, under Indian. -- Tobacco-pipe clay (Min.), a species of clay us…

no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. " The topless Apennines." "Topless fortunes." Beau. & Fl.

Near; about; approaching to. I am toward nine years older since I left you. Swift.

The game of nineholes. [Written also trolmydames.] [Obs.] Shak.

n pillar. It is now mostly disused. [Scot.] Jamieson. Trone stone, a weight equivalent to nineteen and a half pounds. [Scot.] -- Trone weight, a weight formerly used in Scotland, in which a pound varied from 21 to 28 ounces avoirdupois.

id, C8H13N, obtained by the chemical dehydration of tropine, as an oily liquid having a coninelike odor.

One of the elongated incisor or canine teeth of the wild boar, elephant, etc.; hence, any long, protruding tooth.

Next in order after the nineteenth; tenth after the tenth; coming after nineteen others; -- the ordinal of twenty.

One more that nineteen; twice; as, twenty men.

e between; the time between sunrise and noon; specifically, the third hour of the day, or nine o'clock in the morning, according to ancient reckoning; hence, mealtime, because formerly the principal meal was eaten at that hour; also, later, the afternoon; the time between dinner and supper. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Betwixt…

To deprive of sex, or of qualities becoming to one's sex; esp., to make unfeminine in character, manners, duties, or the like; as, to unsex a woman.

g servant. And drop at last, but in unwilling ears, This saving counsel, "Keep your piece nine years." Pope. -- Un*will"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*will"ing*ness, n.

One of the nine Muses, daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne, and patron of astronomy.

0H19N, produced by heating valeric aldehyde with ammonia. It is probably related to the conine alkaloids.

ence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine, and puerile; as, virile age, virile power, virile organs.