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Having many forms, shapes, or appearances. A plastic and multiform unit. Hare.

Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

ious and fatal disease among cattle. Bacon. A murrain on you, may you be afflicted with a pestilent disease. Shak.

A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.

A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [Written also muskat.]

Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.

f natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich past…

A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

distinctive title; to mention. None named thee but to praise. Halleck. Old Yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead. Tennyson.

A kind of pessary of medicated wool or cotton, formerly used.

A kind of small turnip, a variety of Brassica campestris. See Brassica. [Writen also naphew.]

The hemp; -- so called as furnishing ropes for hanging criminals. Dr. prior.

A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).

A network of ropes used for various purposes, as for holding the hammocks when not in use, also for stowing sails, and for hoisting from the gunwale to the rigging to hinder an enemy from boarding. Totten. Netting needle, a kind of slender shuttle used in netting. See Needle, n., 3.

A process (resembling splicing) by which two ropes are jointed end so as to form one rope.

of workable optimism in contrast with the "old thought" of sin, evil, predestination, and pessimistic resignation. The term is essentially synonymous with the term High Thought, used in England.

Placed in a niche. "Those niched shapes of noble mold." Tennyson.