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A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.

Stramonium.

The upper jaw or maxilla.

Situated over the lower jaw; as, the supramaxillary nerve.

Being or situated above the world or above our system; celestial.

A Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces, as shown in the cut, these pieces being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures. It is now often used in primary schools as a means of instruction.

A salt of tartramic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.

An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A message transmitted and recorded by a teleautograph.

A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a telegram; laconic; concise; brief. [R.]

onstituent parts. The common law . . . has reduced the kingdom to its just state and temperament. Sir M. Hale.

Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Divination by the ashes of the altar on which a victim had been consumed in sacrifice.

The mystic number four, which was often symbolized to represent the Deity, whose name was expressed by four letters among some ancient nations; as, the Hebrew JeHoVaH, Greek qeo`s, Latin deus, etc.

A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.

Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.

A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.