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pound (Chem.), one of a large class of organic substances, as the oils of bitter almonds, wintergreen, and turpentine, the balsams, camphors, etc., many of which have an aromatic odor. They include many of the most important of the carbon compounds and may all be derived from the benzene group, C6H6. The term is extend…

t spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

A stoppage or check. Darwin.

A Spanish liquid measure for wine = 3.54 imp. gallons, and for oil = 2.78 imp. gallons.

's self an undue degree of importance; assuming; haughty; -- applied to persons. Arrogant Winchester, that haughty prelate. Shak.

A gnawing. [Obs.] Bailey.

A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

The trachea or windpipe. [Obs.] "Under the artery, or windpipe, is the mouth of the stomach." Holland.

Artful in speech, in action, and in mind. Pope. The artful revenge of various animals. Darwin.

y." Paley. "Each article of time." Habington. The articles which compose the blood. E. Darwin.

to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or skill. -- Ar*tis"tic*al*ly, adv.

extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

cies. Macaulay. An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. Darwin.

lood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

tate of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.

The act of viewing; a look. [Obs.]

Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine. [Obs.] This can not be, by no assay of reason. Shak.