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A mineral occuring in octahedral crystals, also massive, of a reddish color. It is a silicate of iron, zinc manganese, and glicinum, containing sulphur.

A borosilicate of lime commonly occuring in glassy,, greenish crystals. [Written also datholite.]

A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white, bladed crustals.

The act of receiving anything from a source; the act of procuring an effect from a cause, means, or condition, as profits from capital, conclusions or opinions from evidence. As touching traditional communication, . . . I do not doubt but many of those truths have had the help of that derivation. Sir M. Hale.…

The art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations (particularly in securing treaties), including the methods and forms usually employed.

ng nauseous that one is obliged to take; a disagreeable portion thrust upon one. I am for curing the world by gentle alteratives, not by violent doses. W. Irving. I dare undertake that as fulsome a dose as you give him, he shall readily take it down. South.

To make interest for a candidate at an election; to use arts for securing the election of a candidate. A master of the whole art of electioneering. Macaulay.

Tending or serving to eradicate; curing or destroying thoroughly, as a disease or any evil.

The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever. Boyle.

The act of killing the fetus in the womb; the offense of procuring an abortion.

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.

A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.

A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.

A fluoride of cerium, occuring near Fahlun in Sweden. Tynosite, from Colorado, is probably the same mineral.

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

Happening by chance; coming or occuring unexpectedly, or without any known cause; chance; as, the fortuitous concourse of atoms. It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed. Robertson. So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole. Hazlitt.…

A sulphide of antimony, lead, and silver, occuring in monoclinic crystals.

a sail, close to the yard, stay, or mast, or, as a flag, close to or around its staff, securing it there by a gasket or line. Totten.

A barbed spear or a hook with a handle, used by fishermen in securing heavy fish.