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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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656 words match “PINE”

One who opines. Jer. Taylor.

A low plant with fleshy leaves (Sedum telephium), having clusters of purple flowers. It is found on dry, sandy places, and on old walls, in England, and has become naturalized in America. Called also stonecrop, and live-forever. [Written also orpin.]

An alkaloid extracted from jaborandi (Pilocarpus pennatifolius) as a white amorphous or crystalline substance which has a peculiar effect on the vasomotor system.

The burnet saxifrage. See under Saxifrage.

PORCUPINE n. 2 definitions

Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is the best known.

PROPINE v. 6 definitions

g the cup. [Obs.] The lovely sorceress mixed, and to the prince Health, peace, and joy propined. C. Smart.

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

the quality or state of being pulpy.

RAPINE n. 3 definitions

oliation; pillage; plunder. Men who were impelled to war quite as much by the desire of rapine as by the desire of glory. Macaulay.

REPINE v. 3 definitions

on the spirits; to indulge in envy or complaint; to murmur. But Lachesis thereat gan to repine. Spenser. What if the head, the eye, or ear repined To serve mere engines to the ruling mind Pope.

One who repines.

Lying on the back; supine; hence, careless. Sir K. Digby. He spake, and, downward swayed, fell resupine, With his huge neck aslant. Cowper.

Quality of being ropy; viscosity.

The quality of being sappy; juiciness.

SEA PORCUPINE n.

Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body is covered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.

sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystalline substance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated it is unstable and undergoes decomposition.

A kind of pine tree (Pinus Cubensis) found in Southern Florida and the West Indies; -- so called because it grows in "slashes."

The quality or state of being sleepy.

Slipperiness. [R.] "The slippiness of the way." Sir W. Scott.

The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.