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An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.

A tough, compact mineral, of a white, greenish, or grayish color. It is near zoisite in composition, and in part, at least, has been produced by the alteration of feldspar.

An inspissated sap obtained from the rot of the Convolvulus Scammonia, of a blackish gray color, a nauseous smell like that of old cheese, and a somewhat acrid taste. It is used in medicine as a cathartic.

A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is esentially a silicate of aluminia and soda.

Thin, dry, membranous, and not green. Gray.

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

A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised. [Sometimes incorrectly written schirrus; written also skirrhus.]

us) of the Southern United States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is light gray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at the base of the crown feathers.

The pine or gray lizard (Sceloporus undulatus). [Local, U.S.]

l, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray.

A tern; the sea swallow. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also sgraye.]

note. [Prov. Eng.] -- Screech owl. (Zoöl.) (a) A small American owl (Scops asio), either gray or reddish in color. (b) The European barn owl. The name is applied also to other species.

Minute membranous scales on the surface of some leaves, as in the goosefoot. Gray.

The gray snapper. See under Snapper.

e bones and the internal organs become involved. -- Secondary tint, any subdued tint, as gray. -- Secondary union (Surg.), the union of wounds after suppuration; union by the second intention.

Arranged on one side only, as flowers or leaves on a stalk. Gray.

plants, mostly perennial, having succulent leaves and cymose flowers; orpine; stonecrop. Gray.

rs (Bot.), flowers which have stamens and pistils in separate flowers; diclinous flowers. Gray.

etired; secluded. "Sequestered scenes." Cowper. Along the cool, sequestered vale of life. Gray.

sky. Pope. Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear. Gray.