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A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

rom New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

oil, fixed oil expressed from sweet or bitter almonds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a w…

A genus of poisonous fungi of the family Agaricaceæ, characterized by having a volva, an annulus, and white spores. The species resemble edible mushrooms, and are frequently mistaken for them. Amanita muscaria, syn. Agaricus muscarius, is the fly amanita, or fly agaric; and A. phalloides is the death cup.…

The poisonous principle of some fungi.

A genus of leguminous shrubs, having long clusters of purple flowers; false or bastard indigo. Longfellow.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

A non-nitrogenous starchy food; a starchlike substance.

, a diseased condition of various organs of the body, produced by the deposit of an albuminous substance, giving a blue color with iodine and sulphuric acid; -- called also waxy or lardaceous degeneration.

An androgynous plant. Whewell.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

A hard, compact variety of mineral coal, of high luster, differing from bituminous coal in containing little or no bitumen, in consequence of which it burns with a nearly non luminous flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

A poisonous principle obtained from antiar. Watts.

y giving or taking an antidote. Nor could Alexander himself . . . antidote . . . the poisonous draught, when it had once got into his veins. South.

nimal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadruma…

with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.

Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to atate.