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The quality of being insolent; pride or haughtiness manifested in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others; arrogant contempt; brutal imprudence. Flown with insolence and wine. Milton.

ify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon. How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.

extension, any enzyme which splits cane sugar, milk sugar, lactose, etc., into monosaccharides.

Iridescent.

To make iridescent; as, to iridize glass.

Exhibiting the prismatic colors; irised; iridescent. W. Phillips.

Having colors like those of the rainbow; iridescent. Holmes.

terfere; to quarrel; to dispute. When those renowned noble peers Greece Through stubborn pride among themselves did jar. Spenser. For orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist. Milton.

To ride hard; to jounce. [Obs.] Spurr'd, galled and tired by jauncing Bolingbroke. Shak.

To ride on a jaunting car. Jaunting car, a kind of low-set open vehicle, used in Ireland, in which the passengers ride sidewise, sitting back to back. [Written also jaunty car.] Thackeray.

Jewels, collectively; as, a bride's jewelry.

A professional rider of horses in races. Addison.

a carriage going over rough ground, or on a high-trotting horse; as, the horse jolts the rider; fast driving jolts the carriage and the passengers.

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

The cattle of the Hebrides, or of the Highlands. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol.

One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.

A white, crystalline substance obtained as an anhydride of alanine, and regarded as an imido derivative of lactic acid.

One of a series of organic compounds, regarded as anhydrides of certain hydroxy acids. In general, they are colorless liquids, having a weak aromatic odor. They are so called because the typical lactone is derived from lactic acid.

To throw out with a jerk or quickly. He falls, and lashing up his heels, his rider throws. Dryden.