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Latten, 1. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the general shape or outline of a leg of mutton; as, a leg-of-mutton, or shoulder-of-mutton, sail.

metimes contains also magnesium carbonate, and is then called magnesian or dolomitic limestone. Crystalline limestone is called marble.

A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.

Same as Loadstone.

The wryneck.

Having a long tongue.

An East Indian monkey (Semnopithecus femoralis).

Same as Macron.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

Amygdaloid.

A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

A quince.

out woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.

sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian. Metonic cycle or year. (Astron.) See under Cycle.

Used by way of metonymy. -- Met`o*nym"ic*al*ly, adv.