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A small marine fish of the family Atherinidæ, having a silvery stripe along the sides. The European species (Atherina presbyter) is used as food. The American species (Menidia notata) is called silversides and sand smelt. See Silversides.

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

Azure.

A kind of banjo, with a short neck, tuned a fourth higher than the common banjo; -- popularly so called.

ic, and febrifuge, and is used in medicine as a substitute for quinine. [Written also bibirine.]

Beery condition.

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

See Bebeerine.

An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants of the order Araceæ. It has an opening at each end through which raphides, generated inside, are discharged.

The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake. Not long beneath the whelming brine . . . he lay. Cowper.

ntermixed, as an imitation of butter. The manufacturers ship large quantities of oleomargarine to England, Holland, and other countries, to be manufactured into butter, which is sold as butterine or suine. Johnson's Cyc.

A sirupy, nontoxic ptomaine, C5H14N2 (chemically pentamethylene diamine), formed in putrefaction of flesh, etc.

An alkaloid resembing physostigmine and occurring with it in the calabar bean.

Pertaining to, or situated near, the calcar of the brain.

Having the qualities of a crab; crablike.

The quality of being capillary.

Of or pertaining to a goat; as, caprine gambols.

See catherine wheel.

Same as Rose window and Wheel window. Called also Catherine- wheel window.