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To rule badly; to misgovern.

Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus. Dunglison.

To rule over; to govern or determine by superior authority.

One who, or that which, controls, governs, or determines. Sir P. Sidney.

Same as Perula.

A generalization with regard to systems of chemical equilibrium, discovered by Prof. J. Willard Gibbs. It may be stated thus: The degree of variableness (number of degrees of freedom) of a system is equal to the number of components minus the number of phases, plus two. Thus, if the components be salt and water, and th…

Very minutely downy.

The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.

The quality or state of being purulent; the generation of pus; also, the pus itself. Arbuthnot.

sting of pus, or matter; partaking of the nature of pus; attended with suppuration; as, purulent inflammation.

In a purulent manner.

Querulous. [R.]

Full of, or abounding in, dew. [R.]

, quicksilver, when poured upon a plane, divides itself into a great number of minute spherules.

One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets of spiders.

A small spore; a spore.

Not governed or controlled. "Unruled and undirected." Spenser.

The quality or state of being virulent or venomous; poisonousness; malignancy.

poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott.