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A genus of rubiaceous trees and shrubs, mostly East Indian, many species of which yield valuable red and yellow dyes. The wood is hard and beautiful, and used for gunstocks.

A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).

Having a mind of a jester; foolish. Shak.

Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n.

Having a noble mind; honorable; magnanimous. -- No"ble-mind`ed*ness, n.

The omission of some person who ought to have been made a plaintiff or defendant in a suit, or of some cause of action which ought to be joined.

To extricate by winding; to unloose. [R.] Spenser. Dr. H. More.

Having a form intermediate between ovate and cylindraceous.

Same as Ovate-cylindraceous.

To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H7NO) of the indol group, obtained by the reduction of dioxindol. It is a so-called lactam compound.

A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a palindrome.

A writer of palindromes.

o discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

The peanut (Arachis hypogæa); -- so called in the West Indies.

Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes. -- n.

Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.

Imitation of Pindar.

One who imitates Pindar.