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See Yenite.

Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.

A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

Same as Anhydrite.

A unit of force equal to the force which, acting for one second, will give a pound a velocity of one foot per second; -- proposed by J.D.Everett, an English physicist.

into a knot, or into knots; to tie together, as cord; to fasten by tying. A great sheet knit at the four corners. Acts x. 11. When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows. Shak.

The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative. Dr. Prier.

A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. When they [stems of asphodel] be dried, they ought to be made up into knitchets, or handfuls. Holland.

Small particles of ore. Raymond.

A woman who knits. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

One who, or that which, knits, joins, or unites; a knitting machine. Shak.

The work of a knitter; the network formed by knitting.

A string that draws together a purse or bag. [Prov. Eng.] Wright.

See Conite.

See Cyanite.

Inflammation of the laminæ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder. Youatt.

Hydrous carbonate of lanthanum, found in tabular while crystals.

One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.

, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.

hat which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative. There is one sweet Lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out; so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep. Sterne.