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Designating, or pertaining to, an acid isomeric with cyanuric acid, and called also fulminuric acid. See under Fulminuric.

A knurl. Woodward.

A contorted knot in wood; a crossgrained protuberance; a nodule; a boss or projection.

Full of knots; gnarled.

Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

Full of knots. [Obs.] Drayton.

A famous diamond, surrendered to the British crown on the annexation of the Punjab. According to Hindoo legends, it was found in a Golconda mine, and has been the property of various Hindoo and Persian rulers.

ned from the urine of dogs. By decomposition the acid yields a nitrogenous base (called kynurin) and carbonic acid. [Written also cynurenic.]

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.

Capable of cultivation. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Warner.

Cultivation. [Obs.] Spenser.

labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. Donne.

Cultivation. [Obs.] W. Wotton.

One who manures land.

Relating to manures.

The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

That branch of science which treats of moving machines.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

by decomposition of melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powder; -- called also melanurenic acid.