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A white crystalline substance with a sweet taste, found in certain animal tissues and fluids, particularly in the muscles of the heart and lungs, also in some plants, as in unripe pease, beans, potato sprouts, etc. Called also phaseomannite.

An ocher-yellow mineral occurring on minute rhombohedral crystals. It is a hydrous sulphate of iron and potash.

Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

nsferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoite…

ommon iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. Golden marcasite, tin. [Obs.]

A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.

church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.

A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.

Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.

standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange.

In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.

The quality or state of being opposite.

Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.

tery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant. Thou, with trembling fear, Or like a fawning parasite, obey'st. Milton. Parasites were called such smell-feasts as would seek to be free guests at rich men's tables. Udall.

A dark green aluminous variety of amphibole, or hornblende.

A grayish or dark green mineral, consisting essentially of magnesia (magnesium oxide), occurring in granular forms or in isometric crystals.

r for a specific service. The pillage of a place taken by storm was regarded as the perquisite of the soldiers. Prescott. The best perquisites of a place are the advantages it gaves a man of doing good. Addison.

Supplied with perquisites. [Obs.] "Perquisited varlets frequent stand." Savage.

A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite.

Same as Jamesonite.