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Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.

The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

Natrolite; -- called also needle zeolite.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.

A neoplatonist.

hy, of which Plotinus was the chief (A. D. 205-270), and which sought to reconcile the Platonic and Aristotelian systems with Oriental theosophy. It tended to mysticism and theurgy, and was the last product of Greek philosophy.

One who held to Neoplatonism; a member of the Neoplatonic school.

The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation. Owen.

Of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, or his discoveries. Newtonian philosophy, the philosophy of Sir Isaac Newton; -- applied to the doctrine of the universe as expounded in Newton's "Principia," to the modern or experimental philosophy (as opposed to the theories of Descartes and others), and, most frequently, to the…

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

Of or pertaining to the number eight. Dr. H. More.

Having eight eyes. Derham.

A variety of hone slate, or whetstone, used for whetting tools when lubricated with oil.

A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.

Retaining the accent; not enclitic; -- said of certain indefinite pronouns and adverbs when used interrogatively, which, when not so used, are ordinarilly enclitic.

To silence by talk, clamor, or noise. [R.] Shak.

One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmoni…

A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs.

Having an acute sound; (Gr. Gram.), having an acute accent on the last syllable.