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A mineral occurring in steel-gray flexible folia. It contains iron, nickel, and phosphorus, and is found only in meteoric iron.

The picarian birds, as distinguished from the singing birds.

The office or quality of a seer.

A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.

See Sallenders.

A mineral water from Sellers, in the district of Nassan, Germany, containing much free carbonic acid.

Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.

e common species of the American coast (Menidia notata) is very abundant. Called also silverside, sand smelt, friar, tailor, and tinker. Brook silversides (Zoöl.), a small fresh-water North American fish (Labadesthes sicculus) related to the marine silversides.

One whose occupation is to manufacture utensils, ornaments, etc., of silver; a worker in silver.

Any one of numerous species of butterflies of the genus Argynnis and allied genera, having silvery spots on the under side of the wings. See Illust. under Aphrodite.

An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

Military qualities or state; martial skill; behavior becoming a soldier. [R.] Shak.

A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.

See Somersault.

The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.

To disperse. [Obs.] Spenser.

The office or position of a stadtholder.

One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.

One who steers; steersman. [Obs.] Milton.

To diversify aggain what is already diversified. [R.] Sir M. Hale.