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See Guanaco.

The act or process of increasing; growth in bulk, guantity, number, value, or amount; augmentation; enlargement. The seminary that furnisheth matter for the formation and increment of animal and vegetable bodies. Woodward. A nation, to be great, ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than its…

, but much smaller and without a hump. It is supposed to be a domesticated variety of the guanaco. It was formerly much used as a beast of burden in the Andes.

cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.

light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.

ocal consonent, and, in allusion to its mode of formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in…

h in some genera had only three functional toes, and supported the body in walking as in Iguanodon. See Illust. in Appendix.

Having a thick tongue; --applied to a group of lizards (Pachyglossæ), including the iguanas and agamas.

A curassow of the genus Ortalida, allied to the guan.

A genus of curassows, including the guans.

A crystalline mineral found in guano. It is a hydrous phosphate of magnesia and ammonia.

A large iguanalike reptile (Sphenodon punctatum) formerly common in New Zealand, but now confined to certain islets near the coast. It reaches a length of two and a half feet, is dark olive- green with small white or yellowish specks on the sides, and has yellow spines along the back, except on the neck.…

one of the many complex derivatives of urea; thus, hydantoin, and, in an extended dense, guanidine, caffeine, et., are ureides. [Written also ureid.]