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A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones. Shak.

A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

A machine for crushing or hammering stone. Knight.

See Steinbock.

The truffle.

The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead of on the following days.

Tenebrous; dark; gloomy. [Obs.]

Rendering dark or gloomy; tenebrous; gloomy. It lightens, it brightens, The tenebrific scene. Burns. Where light Lay fitful in a tenebrific time. R. Browning.

Tenebrific. Authors who are tenebrificous stars. Addison.

Tenebrous. Young.

Characterized by darkness or gloom; tenebrous.

The quality or state of being tenebrous; tenebrousness. Burton.

Dark; gloomy; dusky; tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.

The red currant.

One who drinks much wine. Prov. xxiii. 20. -- Wine"bib`bing, n.

A tribe of North American Indians who originally occupied the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.

Annular condition or form; as, the annularity of a nebula. J. Rogers.

e to atoms, or to fine spray. The liquids in the form of spray are said to be pulverized, nebulized, or atomized. Dunglison.

The ring of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, Roussea…