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The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.

An inhabitant of the earth; a mortal. Earthings oft her deemed a deity. Drummond.

ers from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

An alkaloid constituting the active principle of ergot; -- so named from its power of producing abortion.

The European perch when two years old. [Prov. Eng.]

A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.

To deprive of the tongue. [Obs.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Punishment by cutting out the tongue.

Tongue-tied; dumb. [Obs.]

See Elenge, Elengeness. [Obs.]

To chain together; to connect, as by links. Shak.

See Chitin.

Situated on the receptacle or disk of a flower.

A glucoside found in the bearberry (and others of the Ericaceæ), and extracted as a bitter, yellow, amorphous mass.

See Ermine. Shenstone.

The red coloring matter of leaves, fruits, flowers, etc., in distinction from chlorophyll.

se- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]

Any one of the several complex ethers of ethyl and glycerin.

A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness, which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll. Encyc. Brit.

A failing short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.