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Of or pertaining to the Jacobins of France; revolutionary; of the nature of, or characterized by, Jacobinism. Burke. -- Jac`o*bin"ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles of the Jacobins; violent and factious opposition to legitimate government. Under this new stimulus, Burn's previous Jacobitism passed towards the opposite, but not very distant, extreme of Jacobinism. J. C. Shairp.

To taint with, or convert to, Jacobinism. France was not then jacobinized. Burke.

One of the sect of Syrian Monophysites. The sect is named after Jacob Baradæus, its leader in the sixth century.

Of or pertaining to the Jacobites; characterized by Jacobitism. -- Jac`o*bit"ic*al*ly, adv.

The principles of the Jacobites. Mason.

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

Of the nature of kincob; brocaded. Thackeray.

Pertaining to, or designating, certain compounds of cobalt having a yellow color. Cf. Cobaltic. Luteocobaltic chloride (Chem.), a brilliant reddish yellow crystalline compound, Co2Cl6(NH3)12, obtained by the action of ammonium chloride on an ammoniacal solution of cobaltic chloride.

A kind of snuff.

A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

A celebrated Rhine wine.

A fruit consisting of many dry indehiscent cells, which contain but few seeds and cohere about a common style, as in the mallows.

A minute yellowish body present in the interior of certain rhizopods.

The chaffinch. [Prov. Eng.]

Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.

Raspings of ivory, hartshorn, metals, or other hard substance. Chambers.

The black-backed gull.

A coloring matter found in the fæces, a product of the alteration of the bile pigments in the intestinal canal, -- identical with hydrobilirubin.

on an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a laughing." Macaulay. The hyphen may be used to connect a with the verbal substantive (as, a-hunting, a-building) or the wo…