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A tall, coarse grass (Imperata arundinacea) of the Philippine Islands and adjacent countries, used for thatching.

A joint guardian.

A small wooden vessel; a pail. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.

A wheel with cogs or teeth; a gear wheel. See Illust. of Gearing.

An instrument for drawing a circular arc without the use of a central point; a cyclograph.

Troubled with bad digestion. [R.] Carlyle.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, cacography; badly written or spelled.

Incorrect or bad writing or spelling. Walpole.

One who practices calcography.

Relating to, or in the style of, calcography.

The art of drawing with chalk.

An engraver on copper or brass; hence, an engraver of copper plates for printing upon paper.

The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially of engraving for printing.

An order of gastropods, including the true limpets, and having the teeth on the odontophore or lingual ribbon.

To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive. "Excogitate strange arts." Stirling. This evidence . . . thus excogitated out of the general theory. Whewell.

The act of excogitating; a devising in the thoughts; invention; contrivance.

See Glycogen.

Glycogenesis. [R.]

A white, amorphous, tasteless substance resembling starch, soluble in water to an opalescent fluid. It is found abundantly in the liver of most animals, and in small quantity in other organs and tissues, particularly in the embryo. It is quickly changed into sugar when boiled with dilute sulphuric or hydrochloric acid,…