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The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (B. alba), black mustard (B. Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (B. Sinapistrum).

being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.

direction. Upon this new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon.

mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. -- O*sir"i*an, a.

A papist. [Obs.] Baxter.

One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

stated him to have placed his son in the household of the Countess of Derby, a recusant papist. Sir W. Scott.

To use Latin words and idioms. "Apishly Romanizing." Milton.

Same as Sacramentarian, n., 1. Papists, Anabaptists, and Sacramentaries. Jer. Taylor.

consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.

A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli; ultramarine; also, a blue prepared from carbonate of copper. [Written also sanders-blue.]

A glucoside found in the seeds of white mustard (Brassica alba, formerly Sinapis alba), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

A glucoside found in the seeds of black mustard (Brassica nigra, formerly Sinapis nigra) It resembles sinalbin, and consists of a potassium salt of myronic acid.

See Tapish.

A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product…

A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pale seeds, which yield mustard and mustard oil. The plant is also grown for forage.

Any cover or screen, as red-tapism. [R.] Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts.] Carlyle.