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The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.

Any fern of the genus Botrychium, esp. B. Lunaria; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond.

Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent. But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly. Fenton.

. Movable letter (Heb. Gram.), a letter that is pronounced, as opposed to one that is quiescent.

er canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. -- Musk duck. (Zoöl.) (a) The Muscovy duck.…

The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

il is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.

State of being nascent; birth; beginning; origin.

Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A part, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. Rev. vii. 9.

a nontoxic base, C5H14N2, found in the putrescent matters of flesh, fish, decaying cheese, etc.

Not of ancient extraction, or of a family of ancient descent; not previously kniwn or famous. Addison.

Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

hee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me. Jer. ii. 22. Cubic niter, a deliquescent salt, sodium nitrate, found as a native incrustation, like niter, in Peru and Chili, whence it is known also as Chili saltpeter. -- Niter bush (Bot.), a genus (Nitraria) of thorny shrubs bearing edible berries, and growing…

A fatlike substance in certain marine animals, to which they owe their phosphorescent properties.

The power of smelling; hence, scent. We are not offended with a dog for a better nose than his master. Collier.

Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearing one-seeded nutlike fruits. [Written also nucumentaceous.]

(as of the almond, walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard and indehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.

Not direct in descent; not following the line of father and son; collateral. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak. Baker. Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and w…

y figure longer than it is broad. The best figure of a garden I esteem an oblong upon a descent. Sir W. Temple.