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An opaque or milk-white chalcedony, a variety of quartz; also, a similar variety of opal.

Bred by hand; domesticated; petted. He brought his cade lamb with him. Sheldon.

Like a calf; stupid. Sheldon.

Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.

se one's power or influence. He tried to make capital out of his rival's discomfiture. London Times.

A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or goldon mackerel.

The abandoned and decaying remains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

To exalt to the office of a cardinal. Sheldon.

careful for us with all this care. 2. Kings iv, 13. What could a careful father more have done Dryden.

A variety of chalcedony, of a clear, deep red, flesh red, or reddish white color. It is moderately hard, capable of a good polish, and often used for seals.

of timber connected by being framed together, as the pieces of a roof, floor, etc.; work done by a carpenter.

solently in the house, and out of the house, to all persons, that he became odious. Clarendon.

A variety of quartz or chalcedony, exhibiting opalescent reflections from within, like the eye of a cat. The mane is given to other gems affording like effects, esp. the chrysoberyl.

e; hence, sudden calamity; great misfortune. The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London. Bp. Buret. The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that nature ever yet saw. Woodward.

es a change or redult. -- Final cause, the end, design, or object, for which anything is done. -- Formal cause, the elements of a conception which make the conception or the thing conceived to be what it is; or the idea viewed as a formative principle and coöperating with the matter. -- Material cause, that of which…

nt would yet give his majesty sufficient caution that the war should be prosecuted. Clarendon.

ime of king Charles L. as contrasted with a Roundhead or an adherent of Parliament. Clarendon.

ishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jandice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).…

ticete, including the dolphins and sperm whale, which have teeth. Another suborder (Zeuglodontia) is extinct. The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea, but are now made a separate order.