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Duskiness. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.

utch auction. See under Auction. -- Dutch cheese, a small, pound, hard cheese, made from skim milk. -- Dutch clinker, a kind of brick made in Holland. It is yellowish, very hard, and long and narrow in shape. -- Dutch clover (Bot.), common white clover (Trifolium repens), the seed of which was largely imported into…

A dwarf supposed to dwell in rocks and hills and to be skillful in working metals.

ject, -- usually one for support or attachment; a lug; a handle; as, the ears of a tub, a skillet, or dish. The ears of a boat are outside kneepieces near the bow. See Illust. of Bell.

The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding.

To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.

A manikin, or image, representing an animal, especially man, with the skin removed so that the muscles are exposed for purposes of study.

The external layer of the skin and mucous membranes; epithelium; ecderon. -- Ec`ter*on"ic, a.

The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

The act or process of educating; the result of educating, as determined by the knowledge skill, or discipline of character, acquired; also, the act or process of training by a prescribed or customary course of study or discipline; as, an education for the bar or the pulpit; he has finished his education. To prepare us…

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

To remove the epidermis of (a skin) with a concave knife, blunt in its middle part, -- as in making chamois leather.

e, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.

One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.

A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.

To bind up; to inclose. Legs . . . embaled in golden buskins. Spenser.

One skilled in embryology.

Having the quality of closing the pores of the skin.

lly of medical practice, remedies, etc.; wanting in science and deep insight; as, empiric skill, remedies. Empirical formula. (Chem.) See under Formula.