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A strong spirituous liqueur made from wormwood and brandy or alcohol.

Deficient and the beginning, as a line of poetry. Brande.

A combination of acetic acid with glycerin. Brande & C.

Same as Acetimeter. Brande & C.

Needle ore. Brande & C.

Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.

t composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

rvative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

lating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

ch a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C.

ients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.

the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

rse of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.

f a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.