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In a rhythmical manner.

The department of musical science which treats of the length of sounds.

Writing rhythm; verse making. "The rhythming monk." Fuller.

Being without rhythm. Coleridge.

An instrument for marking time in musical movements. See Metronome.

Rhythm.

See Rytina.

A little king. [Archaic] Heylin. Bancroft.

Wild; irregular. [Obs.]

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under side of the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green with a metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other wasps and of bees.

Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the Eastern United States (Trochilus colubris).

A ford. [Obs.]

ncluding but one species (R. Stelleri); -- called also Steller's sea cow. [Written also Rhytina.]

Any plant growing on dacayed animal or vegetable matter, as most fungi and some flowering plants with no green color, as the Indian pipe.

Feeding or growing upon decaying anomal or vegetable matter; pertaining to a saprophyte or the saprophytes.

State or fact of being saprophytic.

One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.

Any one of numerous species of small bark-boring beetles of the genus Scolytus and allied genera. Also used adjectively.

g handle, called a snath, which is bent into a form convenient for use. The sharp-edged scythe shears up the spiring grass. Dryden. The scythe of Time mows down. Milton.