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A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values.

High-sounding; pompous in speech. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury. Ure.

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

An earth abounding in pyrites, used by the ancients to kill insects, etc., on vines; -- applied by Brongniart to a carbonaceous alum schist.

Pertaining to, or abounding with, anecdotes; as, anecdotal conversation.

A red or yellowish-red dyeing material, prepared from the pulp surrounding the seeds of a tree (Bixa orellana) belonging to the tropical regions of America. It is used for coloring cheese, butter, etc. [Written also Anatto, Anatta, Annatto, Annotta, etc.]

Partaking of the nature of water, or abounding with it; watery. The aqueous vapor of the air. Tyndall.

The architectural member surrounding the curved opening of an arch, corresponding to the architrave in the case of a square opening.

Pertaining to, or resembling, silver; made of, or sounding like, silver; silvery. Celestial Dian, goddess argentine. Shak.

A piece of tallow placed in a cavity at the lower end of a sounding lead, to bring up the sand, shells, etc., of the sea bottom. Totten.

Rustling in arms; resounding with arms. [Obs.]

In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

ers used in the country about the Tigris and Euphrates, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

Not sounding or sounded. [R.] C. C. Felton.

Profound debility of children due to lack of food and to unhygienic surroundings. --A*threp"tic (#), a.

The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

A coral island or islands, consisting of a belt of coral reef, partly submerged, surrounding a central lagoon or depression; a lagoon island.