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A semitranslucent variety of opal that becomes translucent or transparent on immersion in water.

A mineral of a greenish yellow color; it is a silicate of glucina, lime, and soda with fluorine. Called also leucophanite.

Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade.

A little orphan. Drayton.

See Profane. [Obs.]

A mineral which is opaque in its natural state, but is said to change its color and become transparent by heat.

pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane. W. KÜhne.

Half or imperfect transparency; translucency. [R.] Boyle.

Spodumene.

The yellow pigment present in the inner segments of the retina in animals. See Chromophane.

sexual zooids of hydroids, that have a saclike form and do not become free; -- opposed to phanerocodonic.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

Pertaining to, or derived from, or resembling, chrysophane. Chrysophanic acid (Chem.), a yellow crystalline substance extracted from rhubarb, yellow dock, sienna, chrysarobin, etc., and shown to be a derivative of an anthracene. It is used in the treatment of skin diseases; -- called also rhein, rheic acid, rhubarbarin…

n of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes (1 Maccabees i. 58, iv. 59). The feast, which is mentioned in John x. 22, is held for eight days (beginning with the 25th day of Kislev, corresponding to December), and is celebrated everywhere, chiefly as a festival of lig…

ants, and performing the physiological function of strengthening the epidermal tissue. In phanerogamous plants it is developed as collenchyma.

Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genus Calcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur (C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), and other species, inhabit the United States.

reme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity. The nastiness of Plautus and Aristophanes. Dryden.

A poisonous bulbous plant (Buphane toxicaria) of the Cape of Good Hope.

ss of flowering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

A moth of the genus Lithophane, as L. antennata, whose larva bores large holes in young peaches and apples.