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The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa. False jalap,…

wrangle. Good wits will be jangling; but, gentles, agree. Shak. Prussian Trenck . . . jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner. Carlyle.

A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers.

A composite herb (Tragopogon pratensis), of the same genus as the salsify.

one place to another; hence, figuratively, a passage through life. The good man . . . is gone a long journey. Prov. vii. 19. We must all have the same journey's end. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ted so as to make room for second or extra seat. Also used adjectively; as, a jump-seat wagon.

A variety of mimetite or arseniate of lead in hexagonal prisms of a fine orange yellow. [Written also campylite.]

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

A quadrilateral, one of whose diagonals is an axis of symmetry. Henrici.

e Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.

a common weed with jointed stems (Polygonum aviculare); knotweed.

An inert gaseous element of the argon group, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Liquefying point, -- 152º C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.0.

A camp, esp. one with an inclosure of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. [South Africa]

o unequal parts, one projecting over the other like the lips of a mouth, as in the snapdragon, sage, and catnip.

Having labiate flowers, as the snapdragon.

The European Solomon's seal (Polygonatum verticillatum).

An annual weed (Polygonum Persicaria), having a lanceolate leaf with a dark spot in the middle.

The water pepper (Polygonum Hydropiper), an aquatic plant of Europe and North America.

The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.

xisting or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.