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s of the Mohammedans, containing the professed revelations to Mohammed; -- called also Alcoran. [Written also Kuran or Quran.]

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

A chemist. [Obs.] Boyle.

experiments in any branch of natural science; as, a chemical, physical, or biological laboratory. Hence, by extension, a place where something is prepared, or some operation is performed; as, the liver is the laboratory of the bile.

Of or pertaining to a shore, as of the sea.

Of or pertaining to the lores.

Having the form of a thong or strap; ligulate.

Of or pertaining to the lore; -- said of certain feathers of birds, scales of reptiles, etc.

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.

A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched. -- Mad`re*po"ral, a.

An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. -- Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an, a. & n.

The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

The office or rank of a major.

Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] Bacon.

A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

A representation of a sea view.

genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty- five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

Pertaining to, or like, marble.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]