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Vexation; mortification. I must own that I felt rather vexation and chagrin than hope and satisfaction. Richard Porson. Hear me, and touch Belinda with chagrin. Pope.

One who puts rings into the snouts of hogs.

An alkaloid associated with cocaine in coca leaves (Erythroxylon coca), and extracted as a thick, yellow oil, having a pungent taste and odor.

Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris.

A ferruginous variety of rutile.

See Peregrine. [Obs.]

One who is afficted with pellagra. Chambers's Encyc.

To travel from place to place, or from one country to another; hence, to sojourn in foreign countries.

raveling from one country to another; a wandering; sojourn in foreign countries. "His peregrination abroad." Bacon.

One who peregrinates; one who travels about.

Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. [Spelt also pelegrine.] "Peregrine and preternatural heat." Bacon. Peregrine falcon (Zoöl.), a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly bl…

Foreignness; strangeness. [Obs.] "Somewhat of a peregrinity in their dialect." Johnson.

A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

Of or pertaining to the tanagers.

Resembling the tiger in color; as, the tigrine cat (Felis tigrina) of South America.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight. I fancy there was a background of grinding and waiting before Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance. Mrs. Alexander. A husband somewhere in the background. Thackeray.

The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.