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A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

See Bagasse.

See Molasses.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.

A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.

Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; -- used for paperweights and other small articles.

To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. [Obs.] W. Browne.

To assign wrongly.

Wrong passion or feeling. [Obs.]

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.

Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.

Mica; muscovite. See Mica.

Any species of marine gastropods, of the genera Nassa, Tritia, and other allied genera of the family Nassidæ; a dog whelk. See Illust. under Gastropoda. -- nas"soid, a.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

All that architecture which, since the beginning of the Italian Renaissance, about 1420, has been designed with deliberate imitation of Greco-Roman buildings.

The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.

A small, handsome trout (Salvelinus oquassa), found in some of the lakes in Maine; -- called also blueback trout.

A South American monkey of the genus Callithrix, esp. C. Moloch.