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An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin. [Written also nitrogelatine.]

An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.

The bottom part of a mold or of a flask, in distinction from the cope; the drag.

To educate; to bring or train up. He was nurtured where he had been born. Sir H. Wotton.

bearing small, nutlike tubers, by which the plant multiplies exceedingly, especially in cotton fields. -- Nut lock, a device, as a metal plate bent up at the corners, to prevent a nut from becoming unscrewed, as by jarring. -- Nut pine. (Bot.) See under Pine. -- Nut rush (Bot.), a genus of cyperaceous plants (Scler…

to lift them from the rowlocks and hold them perpendicularly, the handle resting on the bottom of the boat. -- To trail oars, to allow them to trail in the water alongside of the boat. -- To unship the oars, to take them out of the rowlocks.

monolithic. Egyptian obelisks are commonly covered with hieroglyphic writing from top to bottom.

One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.

an oblique direction. Projecting his person towards it in a line which obliqued from the bottom of his spine. Sir. W. Scott.

To loosen or make less compact; as, to open matted cotton by separating the fibers. To open one's mouth, to speak. -- To open up, to lay open; to discover; to disclose. Poetry that had opened up so many delightful views into the character and condition of our "bold peasantry, their country's pride." Prof. Wilson.…

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.

A cloth made of worsted and cotton, -- used for wearing apparel.

The care and support of orphans. [R.] Cotton Mather (1711).

See Ottoman.

A corruption of Annotto.

To inspect throughly; to select. [Obs.] Cotton.

Toprize excessively; to overvalue. Sir H. Wotton.

(anything) over from an upright, or a proper, position so that it lies upon its side or bottom upwards; to upset; as, to overset a chair, a coach, a ship, or a building. Dryden.

of the oyster. -- Oyster dredge, a rake or small dragnet of bringing up oyster from the bottom of the sea. -- Oyster fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The tautog. (b) The toadfish. -- Oyster plant. (Bot.) (a) A plant of the genus Tragopogon (T. porrifolius), the root of which, when cooked, somewhat resembles the oyster in taste; sa…

Of or pertaining to peace; pacific. [R.] Sir H. Wotton. -- Pa*cif"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.]