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The office or rank of an examiner.

General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. "Worn with famine." Milton. There was a famine in the land. Gen. xxvi. 1. Famine fever (Med.), typhus fever.

Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.

Gramineous.

Like, Or pertaining to, grass. See Grass, n., 2.

by the action of ammonia on ethylene oxide. They have the properties both of alcohol and amines.

A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.

e. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

Same as Jasmine.

A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.

See Methyl amine, under Methyl.

A basic compound containing one amido group; as, methyl amine is a monamine.

One of two basic amido derivatives of naphthalene, C10H7.NH2, forming crystalline solids.

Any one of certain class of organic bases regarded as formed from ammonia by the substitution of phenyl for hydrogen.

A basic amido derivative of phloroglucin, having an astringent taste.

To examine beforehand.

To examine anew. Hooker.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Scitamimeæ), mostly tropical herbs, including the ginger, Indian shot, banana, and the plants producing turmeric and arrowroot.

s substance, obtained indirectly from oil of mustard and ammonia; -- called also allyl melamine.

or pertaining to the stamens; possessing stamens; also, attached to the stamens; as, a stamineous nectary.