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Of or pertaining to the Urals and the Altai; as the Ural- Altaic, or Turanian, languages.

Balanced or considered with reference to public weal. [Obs.] Shak.

As a prefix ad- assumes the forms ac-, af-, ag-, al-, an-, ap-, ar-, as-, at-, assimilating the d with the first letter of the word to which ad- is prefixed. It remains unchanged before vowels, and before d, h, j, m, v. Examples: adduce, adhere, adjacent, admit, advent, accord, affect, aggregate, allude, annex, appear,…

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

Coal-black; very black.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

A species of capsicum (Capsicum baccatum), whose small, conical, coral-red fruit is among the most piquant of all red peppers.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

like that of ether. There are two metameric butyric acids, called in distinction the normal- and iso-butyric acid. The normal butyric acid is the one common in rancid butter.

A genus of herbaceous plants (Tribulus) of the order Zygophylleæ, having a hard several-celled fruit, armed with stout spines, and resembling the military instrument of the same name. The species grow in warm countries, and are often very annoying to cattle.

Meal-taking; dining or supping. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A massive mineral, greenish in color, and opal-like in appearance. It is essentially a hydrous silicate of iron.

A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.

A soft, whitish, coral-like stone, formed of broken shells and corals, found in the southern United States, and used for roadbeds and for building material, as in the fort at St. Augustine, Florida.

loid. -- Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small, venomous, Brazilian snake (Elaps corallinus), coral-red, with black bands. (b) A small, harmless, South American snake (Tortrix scytale). -- Coral tree (Bot.), a tropical, leguminous plant, of several species, with showy, scarlet blossoms and coral-red seeds. The best known is…

erous limestone forming a portion of the middle division of the oölite; -- called also coral-rag.

A yellow coal-tar dyestuff which probably consists chiefly of rosolic acid. See Aurin, and Rosolic acid under Rosolic. Red corallin, a red dyestuff which is obtained by treating aurin or rosolic acid with ammonia; -- called also pæonin. -- Yellow corallin. See Aurin.

Formerly any slender coral-like animal; -- sometimes applied more particulary to bryozoan corals.

A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra.