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A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial (Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower (F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.

A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.

rtaining to a funiculus; made up of, or resembling, a funiculus, or funiculi; as, a funicular ligament. Funicular action (Mech.), the force or action exerted by a rope in drawing together the supports to which its ends are Fastened, when acted upon by forces applied in a direction transverse to the rope, as in the arch…

Shaped like a fork; furcate.

Of or pertaining to a furuncle; marked by the presence of furuncles.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

Gay; brisk; merry; galliard. Chaucer.

or performing the functions, both of digestive and circulatory organs; as, the gastrovascular cavity of coelenterates.

Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. The cavern glares with new-admitted light. Dryden.

Glairy. John Georgy (1766).

A dazzling luster or brilliancy.

Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime. -- Glar"ing*ly, adv.

Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth. Bright, crystal glass is glary. Boyle.

Globe-shaped; having the form of a ball or sphere; spherical, or nearly so; as, globular atoms. Milton. Globular chart, a chart of the earth's surface constructed on the principles of the globular projection. -- Globular projection (Map Projection), a perspective projection of the surface of a hemisphere upon a plane…

The state of being globular; globosity; sphericity.

Spherically.

Sphericity; globosity.

aqueous solution of the subacetate of lead, used as a lotion in cases of inflammation. Goulard's cerate is a cerate containing this extract.

Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance. Granular limestone, crystalline limestone, or marble, having a granular structure.