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The inspissated juice of the common lettuce, sometimes used as a substitute for opium.

A native sailor, employed in European vessels; also, a menial employed about arsenals, camps, camps, etc.; a camp follower. [East Indies]

is represented only by a simple, unsegmented notochord. See Amphioxus. [Written also Leptocardii.]

Of or pertaining to the Leptocardia. -- n.

Fossil fruit; a fruit petrified; a carpolite.

A dormer window.

A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

To congratulate. [Oxford Univ. Cant] Whately.

Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

A finical fellow, or macaroni. [Obs.]

A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback.

One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

Of or pertaining to the metacarpus. -- n.

That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.

Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. [R.] Bp. Hall.