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To contend in law litigiously or cavilously. [Obs.]

Cavilous litigation; cavillation. [Obs.] Hudibras.

ted; easily affected by circumstances; airy; lively; hence, changeable; fickle; as, a volatile temper. You are as giddy and volatile as ever. Swift. Volatile alkali. (Old Chem.) See under Alkali. -- Volatile liniment, a liniment composed of sweet oil and ammonia, so called from the readiness with which the latter evap…

Quality or state of being volatile; disposition to evaporate; changeableness; fickleness.

Capable of being volatilized.

The act or process of volatilizing, or rendering volatile; the state of being volatilized.

To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor. The water . . . dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. Sir I. Newton.

In a weighty manner.

The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

Anemophilous; fertilized by pollen borne by the wind.

elicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.

Same as Parkesine.

See Sapodilla.

ng a, as in fate, etc., is a comparatively modern sound, and has taken the place of what, till about the early part of the 17th century, was a sound of the quality of ä (as in far).

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

One of the tiles or squares of a tessellated pavement; an abaculus.

A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

unters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China.