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detic line or curve, the shortest line that can be drawn between two points on the elipsoidal surface of the earth; a curve drawn on any given surface so that the osculating plane of the curve at every point shall contain the normal to the surface; the minimum line that can be drawn on any surface between any two point…

An African ruminant (Camelopardalis giraffa) related to the deers and antelopes, but placed in a family by itself; the camelopard. It is the tallest of animals, being sometimes twenty feet from the hoofs to the top of the head. Its neck is very long, and its fore legs are much longer than its hind legs.…

ittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of ornament.…

A secluded and narrow valley; a dale; a depression between hills. And wooes the widow's daughter of the glen. Spenser.

A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps. Tyndall.

The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god or goddess. O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.

The tattle of a gossip; groundless rumor. Bubbles o'er like a city with gossip, scandal, and spite. Tennyson.

A principle of grammar; a grammatical rule. [Obs.] Dalgarno.

so dragon root. -- Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green. -- Green ebony. (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid work, a…

A color mixed of white, and red, or a gray violet. [Written also gredaline, grizelin.] Dryden.

-- Gum passages, sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (Amygdalaceæ, Cactaceæ, etc.), and affording passage for gum. -- Gum pot, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of certain…

A quagmire; mossy ground where peat or turf has been cut. Dugdale.

.] A bishop must be faultless, the husband of one wife, honestly appareled, harberous. Tyndale (1 Tim. iii. 2)

the vibration of free metallic reeds. It is now made with one or two keyboards, and has pedals and stops.

l instrument consisting of a triangular frame furnished with strings and sometimes with pedals, held upright, and played with the fingers.

edtime and harvest . . . shall not cease. Gen viii. 22. At harvest, when corn is ripe. Tyndale.

hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors, and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, and Tomato worm. Tobacco Hawk Moth (Macrosila Carolina), and its Larva, the Tobacco Worm.

Destitute of haze. Tyndall.

Weekly; hebdomadal. [Obs.]

The aquatic larva of a large American winged insect (Corydalus cornutus), much used a fish bait by anglers; the dobson. It belongs to the Neuroptera.