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See Ambergris.

A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often varieg…

Lack of energy; inactivity. -- An*er"gic (#), a.

The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

ed in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.

An inn. Beau. & Fl.

A large mass or hill, as of ice. Glittering bergs of ice. Tennyson .

A tree of the Orange family (Citrus bergamia), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint (Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata).

A European duck (Anas tadorna). See Sheldrake.

A pastoral song. [Obs.]

A hill. [Obs.]

See Barmaster.

(Min.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite.

See Barmote.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

The crevasse or series of crevasses, usually deep and often broad, frequently occurring near the head of a mountain glacier, about where the névé field joins the valley portion of the glacier.

A long pole with a spike at the end, used in climbing mountains; an alpenstock.

The Norway haddock. See Rosefish.

Any declamatory and vociferous preacher or orator.