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Moderately saline or salt.

Of or pertaining to a hog or the Hog family (Suidæ).

The quality or state of being like summer. [R.] Fuller.

The quality or state of being surly.

Of or pertaining to the family of warblers (Sylvicolidæ). See Warbler.

A synclinal fold.

A painted tape, marked with linear dimensions, as inches, feet, etc., and often inclosed in a case, -- used for measuring.

An artificial alkaloid of the quinoline series, obtained as a white crystalline substance, C10H13NO, whose salts are valuable as antipyretics; -- so called from the green color produced in its solution by certain oxidizing agents.

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

Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidæ, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.

A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for w

sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels. [Written als…

The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.

A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.

To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.

Of, pertaining to, or included by, three lines; as, trilinear coördinates.

Triphylite.

Of or pertaining to Tripoli or its inhabitants; Tripolitan.

A strap placed across a man's forehead to assist him in carrying a pack on his back. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.