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Of, pertaining to, or like, opal in appearance; having changeable colors like those of the opal.

See Orpheline. [Obs.]

See Glyoxaline.

A fine kind of French cotton goods, usually of one color.

Pertaining to a petal; attached to, or resembling, a petal.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones. [Written also chinoxaline.]

Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.

The quality or state of being salt; saltness.

The state of being scaly; roughness.

Relating to, or having the nature of, sepals.

Related to, or resembling, the serval.

The quality or state of being shoaly; little depth of water; shallowness.

Choline. [Written also sinkaline.]

Moderately saline or salt.

Of or pertaining to the genus Timalus or family Timalidæ, which includes the babblers thrushes, and bulbuls.

-sided or six-sided prisms terminated by rhombohedral or scalenohedral planes. Black tourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels. [Written al…

To deviate; to stray; to wander. [Obs.] Dryden.

See Tourmaline.

It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.