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eatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon.

Fit to be drunk or sipped. [Obs.]

A scaly multiple fruit resulting from the ripening of an ament in certain plants, as the hop or pine; a cone. See Cone, n., 3.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4, obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation of terebic acid.

Turning, or whirling; winding; twining; voluble.

Deficiency or want of bile.

Lacking bile.

A colorless, mobile, and very volatile liquid obtained from alcohol by certain of oxidation.

roup of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

y having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.

A system (devised by Henri Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxilia…

The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them. -- Au`to*mo"bil*ist, n.

Relating or belonging to bile; conveying bile; as, biliary acids; biliary ducts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

The production and excretion of bile.

Generating bile.

A brownish green pigment found in human gallstones and in old bile. It is a derivative of bilirubin.

A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

Of or pertaining to the bile.