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Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

A mineral, composed of silica, magnesia, and iron, of a yellow to green color. It is common in certain volcanic rocks; -- called also olivine and peridot. Sometimes used as a gem. The name was also early used for yellow varieties of tourmaline and topaz.

from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition.

A warm or spicy condiment or pickle made in India, compounded of various vegetable substances, sweets, acids, etc.

Belonging to, or resembling, a suborder of composite plants of which the chicory (Cichorium) is the type.

Resembling, or composed of, cinders; full of cinders.

A Linnæan genus of free-flowering composite plants, mostly from South Africa. Several species are cultivated for ornament.

The hypothetical radical, (C6H5.C2H2)2C, of cinnamic compounds. [Formerly written also cinnamule.]

ogenous organic base, C8H6N2, analogous to quinoline, obtained from certain complex diazo compounds.

An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

ne, deliquescent substance, C3H4(CO2H)2, obtained by distillation of citric acid. It is a compound of the ethylene series.

A plant (Salvia sclarea) of the Sage family, used in flavoring soups. Clary water, a composition of clary flowers with brandy, etc., formerly used as a cardiac.

, consisting of hydrous silicate of alumunium. It is the result of the wearing down and decomposition, in part, of rocks containing aluminous minerals, as granite. Lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and other ingredients, are often present as impurities.

The receptacle of the flowers in a composite plant; -- also called clinium.

A mass composed of several bricks run together by the action of the fire in the kiln.

An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.

itions: -- said of enamel when the lines which divide the different patches of fields are composed of a kind of metal wire secured to the ground; as distinguished from champlevé enamel, in which the ground is engraved or scooped out to receive the enamel. S. Wells Williams.

. (Bot.) See Fertilization. -- Close harmony (Mus.), compact harmony, in which the tones composing each chord are not widely distributed over several octaves. -- Close time, a fixed period during which killing game or catching certain fish is prohibited by law. -- Close vowel (Pron.), a vowel which is pronounced wit…

Composed of clots or clods; having the quality or form of a clot; sticky; slimy; foul. "The clotted glebe." J. Philips. When lust . . . Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion. Milton.

Composed of clumps; massive; shapeless. Leigh Hunt.