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A fescennine.

One of those who went to California in the rush for gold in 1849; an argonaut. [Colloq., U. S.]

A bitter, crystallizable substance obtained from gentian.

A valuable astringet obtained from the root of the Geranium maculatum or crane's-bill.

An alkaloid extracted from guarana. Same as Caffeine.

A iodide of quinine obtained as a brown substance,. It is the base of herapathite. See Herapathite.

A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.

A white organic base, resembling morphine, and obtained from certain varieties of opium.

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the lion; as, a leonine look; leonine repacity. -- Le"o*nine*ly, adv. Leonine verse, a kind of verse, in which the end of the line rhymes with the middle; -- so named from Leo, or Leoninus, a Benedictine and canon of Paris in the twelfth century, who wrote largely in this measure,…

Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.

An alkaloid found in several species of lupine (Lupinus luteus, L. albus, etc.), and extracted as a bitter crystalline substance.

Same as Entresol.

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

Of or pertaining to the Oscines.

An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

A base resembling and isomeric with conine, and obtained as a colorless liquid from butyric aldehyde and ammonia.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Pavo.

Pinnately veined or nerved.

A blue coloring matter found in certain algæ.