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A native hydrated silicate of alumina, lime, and potash, first noticed near Rome.

The state of being gourdy.

ke a step, as the raised back of an altar or the like; a set raised over another. "The gradines of the amphitheeater." Layard.

A toothed chised by sculptors.

The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

A thin gauzelike fabric of silk or wool, for women's wear.

A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation of guanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.

A cod salted and dried. Ainsworth.

The quality or state of being handy.

dness; firmness; assurance. Spenser. Plenty and peace breeds cowards; Hardness ever Of hardiness is mother. Shak. They who were not yet grown to the hardiness of avowing the contempt of the king. Clarendon.

The quality of being heady.

Of or pertaining to the leeches.

An order of Annelida, including the leeches; -- called also Hirudinei.

Like or pertaining to the swallows.

this blood Clean from my hand No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. Shak.

ut brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors.

An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia).

awkwardness. An awkward address, ungraceful attitudes and actions, and a certain left-handiness (if I may use the expression) proclaim low education. Chesterfield.

An organic base, C9H6.N.CH3, metameric with quinaldine, and obtained by the distillation of cinchonine.

Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.