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lf. See Pokeweed. -- Pigeon English Etym: [perhaps a corruption of business English], an extraordinary and grotesque dialect, employed in the commercial cities of China, as the medium of communication between foreign merchants and the Chinese. Its base is English, with a mixture of Portuguese and Hindoostanee. Johnson…

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.

A sweet white crystalline substance extracted from the gum of a species of pine (Pinus Lambertina). It is isomeric with, and resembles, quercite.

complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.

ree Pistacia vera, which yields the pistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extract prepared from it.

A substance or extract from the pituitary body.

An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate. Planché.

Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

resistance; they are exploited in genetic engineering as the vehicles for introduction of extraneous DNA into cells, to alter the genetic makeup of the cell. The cells thus altered may produce desirable proteins which are extracted and used; in the case of genetically altered plant cells, the altered cells may grow int…

A brown bitter gum extracted from the rootstalk of the May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). It is a complex mixture of several substances.

Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend; heaviness. "Weights of an extraordinary poise." Evelyn.

de, related to salicin, found in the bark of certain species of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet white crystalline substance.

ive crystals (Opt.), a doubly refracting crystal in which the index of refraction for the extraordinary ray is greater than for the ordinary ray, and the former is refracted nearer to the axis than the latter, as quartz and ice; -- opposed to negative crystal, or one in which this characteristic is reversed, as Iceland…

An extra first toe, or rudiment of a toe, on the preaxial side of the hallux.

An extra first digit, or rudiment of a digit, on the preaxial side of the pollex.

To squeeze, in order to extract the juice or contents of; to squeeze out, or express, from something. From sweet kernels pressed, She tempers dulcet creams. Milton. And I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh's cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh's hand. Gen. xl. 11.

The juice of the grape extracted by the press; also, a fee paid for the use of a wine press.

ular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; abnormal; as, a preternatural appearance; a preternatural stillness; a preternatural presentation (in childbirth) or labor. This vile and preternatural temper of mind. South.…

Tin extracted from the slag.