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The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine. Cheidonic acid, a weak acid extracted fron the celandine (Chelidonium majus), as a white crystalline substance.

A small stone taken from the gizzard of a young swallow. -- anciently worn as a medicinal charm.

A species of goatsucker (Antrostomus Carolinensis), of the southern United States; -- so called from its note.

One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.

The fine filiform process of a cnidoblast.

The chief magistrate of a Spanish town.

A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

rain whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

Pertaining to the Curculionideæ, or weevil tribe.

Any ornamental vessel used as a spittoon; hence, to avoid the common term, a spittoon of any sort.

A prefix or combining form of Diamine.

A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper. To cut a dido, to play a trick; to cut a caper; -- perhaps so called from the trick of Dido, who having bought so much land as a hide would cover, is said to have cut it into thin strips long enough to inclose a spot for a citadel.

The curve which on a given surface and with a given perimeter contains the greatest area. Tait.

An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun's rays from their surfaces, two images are presented to the eye, moving in opposite directions, and coinciding at the instant the sun's center is…

An instrument for copying drawings on the same or a different scale; a form of the pantograph.

An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition. Sir W. Scott.

A mineral, commonly of a yellowish green (pistachio) color, occurring granular, massive, columnar, and in monoclinic crystals. It is a silicate of alumina, lime, and oxide of iron, or manganese.

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.