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A female albino. Holmes.

The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

Affected with albinism.

nce which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from…

The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.

Affected with albinism.

A carbohydrate, isomeric with cane sugar, contained in gum arabic, from which it is extracted as a white, amorphous substance.

A sugar of the composition C5H10O5, obtained from cherry gum by boiling it with dilute sulphuric acid.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

A child or baby; esp., a representation in art of the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes.

The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis).

or pickled. The juice is used as a remedy for skin diseases. [Written also blimbi and blimbing.]

A reddish yellow pigment present in human bile, and in that from carnivorous and herbivorous animals; the normal biliary pigment.

See Bilimbi, etc.

ommonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.

kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand. [Sometimes written bobbin net.]The English machine-made net is now confined to point net, warp net, and bobbin net, so called from the peculiar construction of the machines by which they are produced. Tomlinsom.

Work woven with bobbins.

To hum; to boom.