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ibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture. Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. Walpole.

Senseless talk. [Obs. or R.] See Galimatias.

A hash of various kinds of meats, a ragout. Delighting in hodge-podge, gallimaufries, forced meat. King.

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]

Same as Fibrolite.

Capable of being sublimed or sublimated. -- Sub*lim"a*ble*ness, n. Boyle.

t into the state of vapor, which, on cooling, returns again to the solid state; as, to sublimate sulphur or camphor.

Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified. [Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Dryden.

limed; the product of a purifying process. Religion is the perfection, refinement, and sublimation of morality. South.

Used for sublimation; as, sublimatory vessels. Boyle.

eaves of the much fewer species of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

produce an effect or change upon. As might affect the earth with cold heat. Milton. The climate affected their health and spirits. Macaulay.

plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough pape…

r, the neck of one into the bottom of another in succession; -- used in the process of sublimation. Ure.

The quality of being pleasant or agreeable, whether in respect to situation, climate, manners, or disposition; pleasantness; civility; suavity; gentleness. A sweetness and amenity of temper. Buckle. This climate has not seduced by its amenities. W. Howitt.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

resembling a cherry. -- Barbados leg (Med.), a species of elephantiasis incident to hot climates. -- Barbados nuts, the seeds of the Jatropha curcas, a plant growing in South America and elsewhere. The seeds and their acrid oil are used in medicine as a purgative. See Physic nut.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

peculiar vegetable acid, C6H5.CO2H, obtained from benzoin, and some other balsams, by sublimation or decoction. It is also found in the urine of infants and herbivorous animals. It crystallizes in the form of white, satiny flakes; its odor is aromatic; its taste is pungent, and somewhat acidulous. -- Benzoic aldehyde…