Search the Dictionary

Adultery. [Obs.] Bacon.

shes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

rming the wing of the sphenoid; relating to a bone in the base of the skull, which in the adult is often consolidated with the sphenoid; as, alisphenoid bone; alisphenoid canal.

Adultery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Adultery. See Advoutry.

To mix or adulterate, as liquors. The wine merchants of Nice brew and balderdash, and even mix it with pigeon's dung and quicklime. Smollett.

to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. -- n.

ifies separately in the embryo or in the young, and becomes a part of the sphenoid in the adult.

ike case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

Lacking in genuineness; spurious; false; adulterate; -- applied to things which resemble those which are genuine, but are really not so. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food.

A bitter compound used in adulterating beer; bittern.

A very bitter compound of quassia, cocculus Indicus, etc., used by fraudulent brewers in adulterating beer. Cooley.

y clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba.

lea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) which lives, in the larval state, on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage and other cruciferous plants. -- Cabbage butterfly (Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the Allied P. oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval s…

With temporary gills: -- applied to those Amphibia in which the gills do not remain in adult life.

tal punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

, originally brought from Mania, in the Philippine Islands; now often made of inferior or adulterated tabacco.

zapotilla). It is more plastic than caoutchouc and more elastic than gutta-percha, as an adulterant of which it is used in England. It is used largely in the United States in making chewing gum.