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To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition. Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.

Wearing a helmet; protected by a helmet; covered, as with a helmet.

A salt of linoleic acid.

A salt of maleic acid.

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

Multinuclear.

Without a nucleus.

Having a nucleus; nucleated.

Having a nucleus; nucleate; as, nucleated cells.

A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.

Leather made from sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.…

To surpass in bleating.

Upper leather. Shak.

Having a crest covering the pileus, or whole top of the head. Pileated woodpecker (Zoöl.), a large American woodpecker (Ceophloeus pileatus). It is black, with a bright red pointed crest. Called also logcock, and woodcock.

See Plait.

A salt of ricinoleic acid; -- formerly called palmate.

Possessed of but a single nucleus; as, a uninucleated cell.

To remove the plaits of; to smooth. W. Browne.