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e, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East with betel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.

xpose to inconvenience not foreseen to lead into error or sin. Genius . . . often betrays itself into great errors. T. Watts.

advantage, or success; as, Henry writes better than John; veterans fight better than recruits. I could have better spared a better man. Shak.

wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.

Having two earlike projections at its base, as a leaf.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

The two hundredth anniversary, or its celebration.

The two hundredth year or anniversary, or its celebration.

An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also, the beak or horn itself.

evolves around the sun in 6.6 years. The November meteors (Andromedes or Bielids) move in its orbit, and may be fragments of the comet.

irulent poison extracted from Aconitum ferox or other species of aconite: also, the plant itself.

The European whortleberry (Vaccinium myrtillus); also, its edible bluish black fruit. There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. Shak.

eted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents are the bile salts, and coloring matters.

ucts. Biliary calculus (Med.), a gallstone, or a concretion formed in the gall bladder or its duct.

paid is called the payee. The person making the order may himself be the payee. The bill itself is frequently called a draft. See Exchange. Chitty. -- Bill of fare, a written or printed enumeration of the dishes served at a public table, or of the dishes (with prices annexed) which may be ordered at a restaurant, etc…

Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n.

One of the smaller vital units of a cell, the bearer of vitality and heredity. See Pangen, in Supplement.

e functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.