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obtained from, hops; specifically, designating an acid obtained by the decomposition of lupulin.

A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.

ting a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.

o flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. -- called also manna groats.

Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.

female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

One of the Marsupialia.

Related to or resembling the marsupials; furnished with a pouch for the young, as the marsupials, and also some fishes and Crustacea.

Same as Marsupium.

A fossil crinoid of the genus Marsupites, resembling a purse in form.

The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea.

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

The scup. [Local, U. S.]

See Nepenthes.

A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

The great white water lily of Europe; the Nymphæa alba.

re publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [Obs.] In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow.

The act of nuncupating. [Obs.]

Oral; not written. Nuncupative will or testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.