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rong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. In this intense seclusion of the forest. Hawthorne.

erwoven. "Knit in nice intertexture." Coleridge. Skirted thick with intertexture firm Of thorny boughs. Cowper.

of being intervolved or coiled up; a convolution; as, the intervolutions of a snake. Hawthorne.

or apprehension. Sagacity and a nameless something more, -- let us call it intuition. Hawthorne.

t court vassals, opposed him. Milton. The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.

und, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.

might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton. An investment in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.

In an inveterate manner or degree. "Inveterately tough." Hawthorne.

is, or family Isidæ, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. See Gorgoniacea.

The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium (Datura stramonium), a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura.

salem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family (Phlomis tuberosa). -- Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsonia aculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges. -- The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.

The camel's thorn. See under Camel.

es and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds, it is related in anatomical characters to the ducks and geese (Anseres). Called also horned s…

A black, two-horned, African rhinoceros (Atelodus keitloa). It has the posterior horn about as long as the anterior one, or even longer.

Resembling horn; horny; corneous.

loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal tissues, such as horn, hair, feathers, and the like. It is an insoluble substance, and, unlike elastin, is not dissolved even by gastric or pancreatic juice. By decomposition with sulphuric acid it yields leucin and tyrosin, as does albumin. Calle…

Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

A tough, horny animal substance entering into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.