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Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

Silver. Luna cornea (Old Chem.), horn silver, or fused silver chloride, a tough, brown, translucent mass; -- so called from its resemblance to horn. Luna moth (Zoöl.), a very large and beautiful American moth (Actias luna). Its wings are delicate light green, with a stripe of purple along the front edge of the anterior…

A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as of sounds. [Obs.] To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. Milton.

Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

definite object. For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. Bp. Hall.

Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.

The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.

box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon. [Written also maroon.]

To confuse; to stupefy. [Obs.] Holland.

Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.

To confuse; to confound. [Obs.] Shak.

A wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; -- often used contemptuously. This medley of philosophy and war. Addison. Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars. W. Walsh.

ted. Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0º Centigrade or 32º Fahr., that of urea is 132º Centigrade. -- Melting pot, a vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.

Profuse menstruation.

ly to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.

Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.

An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, -- as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.