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Waved or engine-turned. Mollett.

A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

The art or process of coloring metals.

A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

The wood of the agalloch. [Obs.] Wyclif.

See Agalloch.

ian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade. McCulloch.

An herbaceous grasslike plant (Triglochin palustre, and other species) with pods opening so as to suggest barbed arrowheads.

See Cloche.

A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.

ick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

A fragrant wood; agalloch.

A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottled color, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac; -- used by cabinetmakers.

may be directly employed either to support human beings or to assist in production. M'Culloch.

general sense, of small deductions from the original weight. [Written also clough.] McCulloch.

claim for demurrage ceases as soon as the ship is cleared out and ready for sailing. M`Culloch.

l or bottle of leather, used in India to hold ghee, oil, etc. [Also written dupper.] M'Culloch.

Murucuja); also, its fruit. -- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (Aristolochia Sipho). Its flowers have their calyx tubes curved like a tobacco pipe.

A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.

A species of lyric poem, invented by Archilochus, in which a longer verse is followed by a shorter one; as, the Epodes of Horace. It does not include the elegiac distich.