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Slanderous. [R.] Entick.

Translucent. [Obs.] The air's tralucent gallery. Sir. J. Davies.

Transparent; clear. [Poetic] "Fountain or fresh current . . . translucent, pure." Milton. Replenished from the cool, translucent springs. Pope.

In a translucent manner.

A member of the trecento, or an imitator of its characteristics.

The fourteenth century, when applied to Italian art, literature, etc. It marks the period of Dante, Petrarch, and boccaccio in literature, and of Giotto in painting.

Including, or relating to, the interval of three hundred years; tercentenary. -- n.

Slightly tumid; swollen, as certain moss capsules.

Becoming turgid or inflated; swelling; growing big.

To throw from its center.

To remove from its actual century. [R.] It has first to uncentury itself. H. Drummond.

Indecent. [Obs.]

Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, that form of development which takes place primarily around a single central point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.

Of or pertaining to Saint Vincent de Paul, or founded by him. [R.]

Violescent. [R.]

Tending to a violet color; violascent.

Beginning to be green; slightly green; greenish.

Slightly green; greenish.

Capable of being formed into glass; tending to become glass.

vely modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).