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See under Rocket.

A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

An East Indian coin of the value of 12

See Open-hearth process, etc., under Open.

See Sirocco. [Poetic] Emerson.

An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chiefly experienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.

A rocket that ascends high and burns as it flies; a species of fireworks.

A coarse frock, or shirt, worn over the other dress, as by farm laborers. Macaulay.

A nonplane curve formed by the intersection of the surface of an oblique cone with the surface of a sphere whose center is at the vertex of the cone.

pirobacteria similar to Spirillum, but distinguished by its motility. One species, the Spirochæte Obermeyeri, is supposed to be the cause of relapsing fever.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvæ by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia.

Same as Chain wheel.

A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Written also strocal, strocle, strokal.]

Supraoccipital.

Situated over or above a trochlea or trochlear surface; -- applied esp. to one of the subdivisions of the trigeminal nerve.

The young of the kittiwake gull before the first molt.

A salt of taurocholic acid; as, sodium taurocholate, which occurs in human bile.

Pertaining to, or designating, a conjugate acid (called taurocholic acid) composed of taurine and cholic acid, present abundantly in human bile and in that of carnivora. It is exceedingly deliquescent, and hence appears generally as a thick, gummy mass, easily soluble in water and alcohol. It has a bitter taste.…

Glue made from a bull's hide.