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Rendered transparent by heat.

led because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

To change again, or change back.

Having hands red with blood; in the very act, as if with red or bloody hands; -- said of a person taken in the act of homicide; hence, fresh from the commission of crime; as, he was taken red-hand or red-handed.

ld limicoline bird (Totanus calidris), having the legs and feet pale red. The spotted redshank (T. fuscus) is larger, and has orange-red legs. Called also redshanks, redleg, and clee.

To exchange anew; to reverse (a previous exchange).

Resplendent; brilliant. [R. & Obs.] Fabyan.

pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane. W. KÜhne.

Situated or being on the right; nearer the right hand than the left; as, the right-hand side, room, or road.

Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.

The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill; dexterity.

The clouded tiger cat (Felis marmorata) of Southern Asia and the East Indies.

An incarnation of Satan; a being possessed by a demon. [R.] O. A. Brownson.

Satan. [Obs.] Chaucer. Wyclif.

The case, or impermeable apparel, in which a diver can work while under water.

A very large seal (Macrorhinus proboscideus) of the Antarctic seas, much hunted for its oil. It sometimes attains a length of thirty feet, and is remarkable for the prolongation of the nose of the adult male into an erectile elastic proboscis, about a foot in length. Another species of smaller size (M. angustirostris)…

Not original or primary; received from another. They have but a secondhand or implicit knowledge. Locke.

A kind of muslin of a texture between nainsook and mull.

Half or imperfect transparency; translucency. [R.] Boyle.

Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent. Woodward.