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Kyanite. [Written also sappar.]

The principal garment of a Hindoo woman. It consists of a long piece of cloth, which is wrapped round the middle of the body, a portion being arranged to hang down in front, and the remainder passed across the bosom over the left shoulder.

A kind of ornamental hard-glazed pottery made at Satsuma in Kiushu, one of the Japanese islands.

To frighten; to strike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

ghten crows or other birds from cornfields; hence, anything terifying without danger. A scarecrow set to frighten fools away. Dryden.

An alarm of fire. [Obs.]

Mottled pottery made from scraps of differently colored clays.

Any tectibranchiate mollusk of the genus Aplysia. See Aplysia.

One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

ed; cauterized; hence, figuratively, insensible; not susceptible to moral influences. A seared conscience and a remorseless heart. Macaulay.

The state of being seared or callous; insensibility. Bp. Hall.

Seaweed; esp., coarse seaweed. See Ware, and Sea girdles.

Half or partially calcareous; as, a semicalcareous plant.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.

Porcelain manufactured at Sèvres, France, ecpecially in the national factory situated there.

Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his works. [Written also Shakespearian, Shakspearean, Shakspearian, Shaksperean, Shaksperian.etc.]

n iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.

The part of the plow to which the share is attached.