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A curve in the form of the figure 8, with both parts symmetrical, generated by the point in which a tangent to an equilateral hyperbola meets the perpendicular on it drawn from the center.

rld grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [Written also muskat.]

Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.

Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also offuscate.] Sir. T. Elyot.

The act of darkening or bewildering; the state of being darkened. "Obfuscation of the cornea." E. Darwin.

See Obfuscate, Obfuscation. [Obs.]

Fishing; fishery. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A fisherman; an angler.

Of or pertaining to fishes or fishing. Addison.

To ransom; to release; to rescue. [Obs.] Howell.

Metal still in the mine. [Obs.]

To scatter in pieces; to divide. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Anything forfeited or confiscated.

r wider space: they are found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast plains. R. Cobden.

A fish (Lophius piscatorius), of Europe and America, having a large, broad, and depressed head, with the mouth very large. Peculiar appendages on the head are said to be used to entice fishes within reach. Called also fishing frog, frogfish, toadfish, goosefish, allmouth, monkfish, etc.

Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts. -- Bed"ou*in*ism (, n.

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes.