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iction; a premise, reason, or datum; ultimate or first principle; cause of existence or occurrence; originating force or agency; as, the ground of my hope.

Having incurred guilt; criminal; morally delinquent; wicked; chargeable with, or responsible for, something censurable; justly exposed to penalty; -- used with of, and usually followed by the crime, sometimes by the punishment. They answered and said, He is guilty of death. Matt. xxvi. 66. Nor he, nor you, were guilty…

A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one s…

A large deposit of ore in a lode. Gulf Stream (Geog.), the warm ocean current of the North Atlantic.

A channel or hollow worn in the earth by a current of water; a short deep portion of a torrent's bed when dry.

To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace, And waste their music on the savage race. Young.

A variety of native Epsom salt occurring in silky fibers.

A claylike mineral, occurring in soft, smooth, amorphous masses, of a whitish color.

An iron alum occurring in silky fibrous aggregates of a yellowish white color.

That which happens or comes suddenly or unexpectedly; also, the manner of occurrence or taking place; chance; fortune; accident; casual event; fate; luck; lot. Chaucer. Whether art it was or heedless hap. Spenser. Cursed be good haps, and cursed be they that build Their hopes on haps. Sir P. Sidney. Loving goes by haps…

A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually in white cruciform crystals; cross-stone.

A brass coin bearing the emblem of a harp, -- formerly current in Ireland. B. Jonson.

To clear the throat with an audible sound by forcing an expiratory current of air through the narrow passage between the depressed soft palate and the root of the tongue, thus aiding in the removal of foreign substances.

Violent; impetuous. "A heady currance." Shak.

Consisting of seven days, or occurring at intervals of seven days; weekly.

umptive; as, a hectic patient. Hectic fever (Med.), a fever of irritation and debility, occurring usually at a advanced stage of exhausting disease, as a in pulmonary consumption.

uit when the electro-motive force induced in this circuit is one volt, while the inducing current varies at the rate of one ampère a second.

A cell larger than the others, and of different appearance, occurring in certain algæ related to nostoc.

A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

The concurrence of two vowels in two successive words or syllables. Pope.