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istillation of a bituminous mineral containing fossil fishes. It is used in medicine as a remedy in some forms of skin diseases.

A remedy for the jaundice.

the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then exist. Reid.

ch, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. The ides of March remember. Shak.

f the four constants forming the Hebrew tetragrammaton or "incommunicable name" of the Supreme Being, which in latter Jewish tradition is not pronounced save with the vowels of adonai or elohim, so that the true pronunciation is lost.

Allurement. [R.] T. Brown.

A Mohammedan prince who, as a successor of Mohammed, unites in his person supreme spiritual and temporal power.

Not memorable; not worth remembering. Johnson.

Not palpable; that cannot be felt; extremely fine, so that no grit can be perceived by touch. "Impalpable powder." Boyle.

To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy. "Imparadised in one another's arms." Milton.

and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays Not more by envy than excess of praise. Pope. The impatient man will not give himself time to be informed of the matter that lies before him. Addison. Dryden was poor and impatient of poverty. Macaulay.…

Belonging to, or suitable to, supreme authority, or one who wields it; royal; sovereign; supreme. "The imperial democracy of Athens." Mitford. Who, as Ulysses says, opinion crowns With an imperial voice. Shak. To tame the proud, the fetter'd slave to free, These are imperial arts, and worthy thee. Dryden. He sounds his…

Supreme power; absolute dominion; empire.

The quality of being impious; want of piety; irreverence toward the Supreme Being; ungodliness; wickedness.

wanting piety; irreligious; irreverent; ungodly; profane; wanting in reverence for the Supreme Being; as, an impious deed; impious language. When vice prevails, and impious men bear away, The post of honor is a private station. Addison.

Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes. -- n.

A primary division of the Mammalia, including the monotremes and marsupials, in which no placenta is formed.

An indistinct notion, remembrance, or belief.

prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser.

oving diligently the talents which God hath committed to us. Barrow. A hint that I do not remember to have seen opened and improved. Addison. The court seldom fails to improve the oppotunity. Blackstone. How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour. I. Watts. Those moments were diligently improved. Gibbon. Tr…