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A small, strong carriage for conveying materials on a railroad. [Eng.]

A plant of the genus Aralia, the root of which is highly valued as a medicine among the Chinese. The Chinese plant (Aralia Schinseng) has become so rare that the American (A. quinquefolia) has largely taken its place, and its root is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish…

A shop or barroom where gin is sold as a beverage. [Colloq.]

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth.

The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.

Primarily.

The original fauna and flora of a geographical area

To write in the margin. [R.] Coleridge.

Of the nature or color of verdigris, or the rust of copper.

An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.

Of the nature of, or resembling, the white of the eye, or of an egg; albuminous; -- a term applied to textures, humors, etc., which are perfectly white.

A nitrogenous substance resembling gelatin, obtained from certain algæ.

Ambagious. [R.]

etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the chest; -- called also breast pang, spasm of the chest.

Pertaining to angina or angina pectoris.

One who east human flesh. [Ludicrous] Shak.

Containing clay and iron.

A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

ied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

Cloth or other material for bags.