Search the Dictionary

A little bull.

The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.

ptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

Consisting of, or accompanied by, immoderate laughter. Cachinnatory buzzes of approval. Carlyle.

An inflammable, volatile, oily, liquid hydrocarbon, obtained by the destructive distillation of caoutchouc.

earing the long pointed cowl or capoch of St. Francis. A bare-footed and long-bearded capuchin. Sir W. Scott.

The act of seizing or taking hold of Catching bargain (Law), a bargain made with an heir expectant for the purchase of his expectancy at an inadequate price. Bouvier.

One of the tannic acids, extracted from catechu as a white, crystaline substance; -- called also catechuic acid, and catechuin.

A large variety of the domestic fowl, originally from Cochin China (Anam).

in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

and Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

See Quinidine.

The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

Healing the distemper of cows.

In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

Set with prickles; prickly, like a hedgehog; bristled; as, an echinated pericarp.

Same as Echinoid.

One the Echinoidea.

Of, or like, an echinite.