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A plant with checkered petals, of the genus Fritillaria: the Guinea-hen flower. See Fritillaria.

In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton.

The of instilling; also, that which is instilled. Johnson.

An instiller. [R.]

Belonging to instillation. [R.]

One who instills. Skelton.

The act of instilling; also, that which is instilled. [Written also instilment.]

A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.

e proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

According to the French method of numeration (which method is followed also in the United States) the number expressed by a unit with twenty-seven ciphers annexed. According to the English method, the number expressed by a unit with forty-eight ciphers annexed. See Numeration.

A small cone or mass made of paste of gum, benzoin, cinnamon, and other aromatics, -- used for fumigating or scenting the air of a room.

The act of pounding and bruising with a pestle in a mortar. Sir T. Browne.

Growing on, or having nature of, the pistil; of or pertaining to a pistil. Barton.

Having a pistil or pistils; -- usually said of flowers having pistils but no stamens.

The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Same as Archegonium.

Pistillate.

The metamorphosis of other organs into pistils.

To explain by marginal notes; to postil. Tracts . . . postillated by his own hand. C. Knight.