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A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene, and obtained from opianic acid.

Reddish; of a yellowish red or brownish red color; tawny.

ual proportions, namely, two parts of red to one each of blue and yellow; also, of a yellowish brown color. The morn, in russet mantle clad. Shak. Our summer such a russet livery wears. Dryden.

A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip.

resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor. Sabbatical year (Jewish Antiq.), every seventh year, in which the Israelites were commanded to suffer their fields and vineyards to rest, or lie without tillage.

t (Colchichum autumnate) of Europe, resembling saffron. -- Saffron wood (Bot.), the yellowish wood of a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself. -- Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from the stigmas of the true saffron (Crocus sativus).

Having a color somewhat like saffron; yellowish. Lord (1630).

Having a yellowish color; of a pale, sickly color, tinged with yellow; as, a sallow skin. Shak.

To adress, as with expressions of kind wishes and courtesy; to greet; to hail. I salute you with this kingly title. Shak.

ctum. Sanctum sanctorum Etym: [L.] , the Holy of Holies; the most holy place, as in the Jewish temple.

The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood.

Of the color of sand; of a light yellowish red color; as, sandy hair.

rdinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called also naseberry. It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in desserts.

A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.

of; to make content; to supply to the full, or so far as to give contentment with what is wished for. Death shall . . . with us two Be forced to satisfy his ravenous maw. Milton.

Calcium tungstate, a mineral of a white or pale yellowish color and of the tetragonal system of crystallization.

The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ. F. W. Robertson.

A Jewish dry measure containing one third of an an ephah.

ng a first impulse or impression; reconsideration. On second thoughts, gentlemen, I don't wish you had known him. Dickens.

The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice.