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Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

d to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.

An intensely poisonous alkaloid, extracted from aconite.

The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it. Strong As aconitum or rash gunpowder. Shak.

Like a gland; full of glands; glandulous; adenous.

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura.

Sticky; tenacious, as glutinous substances.

honograph diaphragm so arranged that its action opens and closes valves, producing synchronous air blasts sufficient to operate a larger diaphragm with greater amplitude of vibration.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

A white crystalline resinous substance extracted from gutta- percha by the action of alcohol or ether.

A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A.

Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

To cover or saturate with albumen; to coat or treat with an albuminous solution; as, to albuminize paper.

A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modifica…

A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.

rom various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.

The Carob, a leguminous tree of the Mediterranean region; also, its edible beans or pods, called St. John's bread.

A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain algæ.