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One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class.

A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maskallonge, maskinonge, muskallonge, muskellonge, and muskelunjeh.]

ed albuminous substance in the serum from red-colored muscles. It is identical with hemoglobin.

A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate.

An account of deaths, or of the dead; a register of deaths; a collection of obituary notices.

A nitro derivative of methane obtained as a mobile liquid; -- called also nitrocarbol.

Of exalted rank; of or pertaining to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn; as, noble blood; a noble personage.

One of the nobility; a noble; a peer; one who enjoys rank above a commoner, either by virtue of birth, by office, or by patent.

being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness. His purposes are full honesty, nobleness, and integrity. Jer. Taylor.

The nobility; persons of noble rank collectively, including males and females. Dryden.

The body of nobles; the nobility. [Obs.] Chaucer.

for the sake of finding pasturage. The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, and Volga. W. Tooke.

llegiance to William and Mary, or to their successors, after the revolution of 1688; a Jacobite.

See Obi.

See Obi.

Same as Obi. -- a.

See Obi.

rless porous framework, or stroma, of red blood corpuscles from which the zooid, or hemoglobin and other substances of the corpuscles, may be dissolved out.

A colorless mobile liquid of a pleasant aromatic odor obtained by the distillation of olibanum, or frankincense, and regarded as a terpene; -- called also conimene.

er of plants (Onagraceæ or Onagrarieæ), which includes the fuchsia, the willow- herb (Epilobium), and the evening primrose ().