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Of or pertaining to the pointed tooth on each side the incisors. Canine appetite, a morbidly voracious appetite; bulimia. -- Canine letter, the letter r. See R. -- Canine madness, hydrophobia. -- Canine toth, a toth situated between the incisor and bicuspid teeth, so called because well developen in dogs; usually, t…

Caution; crafty management. [N. of Eng. & Scot.]

See under Cat.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

See Quinidine.

A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called al…

A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.

A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. Watts.

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

The quality or state of being downy.

Of or pertaining to ivory. "[She] read from tablet eburnine." Sir W. Scott.

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

Like a falcon or hawk; belonging to the Falconidæ

characteristic of a woman; womanish; womanly. Her letters are remarkably deficient in feminine ease and grace. Macaulay.

See Female rhyme, under Female, a.

In a feminine manner. Byron.

The quality of being feminine; womanliness; womanishness.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. -- n.