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A substance analogous to chloranil but containing bromine in place of chlorine.

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.

Bell-shaped; campanulate; campaniform.

In a canny manner. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

A mobile liquid, CO.N.C6H5, of pungent odor. It is the phenyl salt of isocyanic acid.

d, for the trimimg of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of chenille rugs.

vative of quinone, obtained by the action of chlorine on certain benzene derivatives, as aniline.

A yellow substance obtained as a by-product in the manufacture of rosaniline. It dyes silk a fine golden-yellow color.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

A substance, analogous to benzil, obtained from oil of caraway.

, C16H14N2, of artifical production. It is a strong base, and is a complex derivative of aniline and quinoline.

Resembling a cord in toughness and flexibility, as the roots of some endogenous trees.

A kind of brittle limestone. [Prov. Eng.] Kirwan.

Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

Given to talking inanely; loquacious; garrulous. [R.]

Any one of a series of artificial blue dyes, in appearance resembling indigo, for which they are often used as substitutes.

Young; youthful; as, a juvenile appearance. "A juvenile exercitation." Glanvill.

The state or quality of being juvenile; juvenility.

Youthfulness; adolescence. Glanvill.

A colorless, crystalline, organic base, obtained from rosaniline by reduction, and also from other sources. It forms colorless salts.