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To color too highly.

A division of birds, including the cranes, rails, etc.

Marsh-inhabiting; belonging to the Paludicolæ

Same as Party-colored.

Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.

Of the color of a peach blossom. "Peach-colored satin." Shak.

To pass through fine interstices; to filter; as, water percolates through porous stone.

The act or process of percolating, or filtering; filtration; straining. Specifically (Pharm.), the process of exhausting the virtues of a powdered drug by letting a liquid filter slowly through it.

One who, or that which, filters. "[Tissues] act as percolators." Henfrey.

A colorless variety of chabazite; the original was from Leipa, in Bohemia.

A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color.

One skilled in pharmacology.

Knowledge of drugs or medicines; the art of preparing medicines.

A marsupial of the genus Phascolomys; a wombat.

The science of algæ, or seaweeds; algology.

Logic illustrated by physics.

Of or pertaining to physicologic. Swift.

Physics. [R.] -- Phys`i*col"o*gist, n. [R.]

A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.

lated to pyridine, and obtained from bone oil, acrolein ammonia, and coal-tar naphtha, as colorless mobile liquids of strong odor; -- called also methyl pyridine.