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A fossil millepore.

capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.

A Franciscan friar.

The smaller number; -- opposed to Ant: majority; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority.

To write incorrectly.

The state of consisting of molecules; the state or quality of being molecular.

The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.

The quality or state of being produced by nature. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

ve the hair uncut, to abstain from wine and strong drink, and to practice extraordinary purity of life and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.

The state of a Nazarite.

Of or pertaining to a Nazarite, or to Nazarites.

The vow and practice of a Nazarite.

A Nazarite.

A blackish fish (Hypoplectrus nigricans), of the Sea-bass family. It is a native of the West Indies and Florida.

Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes. Keary.

A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.

The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists, following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.

A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn as a remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone; a kind of jade. See Jade.

A medicine adapted to relieve or cure disease of the kidneys.