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A product of gastric digestion intermediate between albumin and peptone, identical with hemialbumose.

f King's Bench and in the Court of Common Pleas, now superseded by the master. [Eng.] Wharton. Burrill.

One of the Protista.

The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.

Same as Prothonotary.

Same as Pumice.

A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.

A simple device, resembling a button in form, so arranged that pushing it closes an electric circuit, as of an electric bell.

A fluoride of alumina and soda occurring with the Greenland cryolite in octahedral crystals.

A small rat. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

The ringed dotterel, or ring plover. [Prov.Eng.]

See Sheepback.

A stone, often of great size and weight, resting upon another stone, and so exactly poised that it can be rocked, or slightly moved, with but little force.

Same as Oölite.

A stone found at Rosetta, in Egypt, bearing a trilingual inscription, by aid of which, with other inscriptions, a key was obtained to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt. Brande & C.

See Hooded crow, under Hooded.

See Rubble, 1 and 2.

A stone for scouring or rubbing; a whetstone; a rub.

A round-toed, armed covering for the feet, worn during a part of the sixteenth century in both military and civil dress.