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ther parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred a…

An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.

Having analogy; analogous. Sir M. Hale.

ge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including A. sorghum and A. halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oi…

To go before in time or place; to precede; to surpass. Sir M. Hale.

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

ristianity might reasonably introduce new laws, and antiquate or abrogate old one. Sir M. Hale.

ed; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant. Normandy became an appendix to England. Sir M. Hale.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

A bringer in; an importer. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

The act of drying, or the state of growing dry. The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.

To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

To assimilate. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.

nnulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balænoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

Shale or bituminous shale. Kirwan.