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Strawy; consisting of straw. Robinson.

A poisonous plant (Datura Stramonium); stinkweed. See Datura, and Jamestown weed.

Stramonium.

A salt of tartramic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is the primary acid amide derivative of tartaric acid.

An acid amide derivative of tartaric acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A division of Coleoptera having, apparently, only four tarsal joints, one joint being rudimentary.

Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerous flower.

A verse or line consisting of four measures, that is, in iambic, trochaic, and anapestic verse, of eight feet; in other kinds of verse, of four feet.

A hypothetical hydrocarbon, C4H8, analogous to trimethylene, and regarded as the base of well-known series or derivatives.

The union of the four attributes of the Evangelists in one figure, which is represented as winged, and standing on winged fiery wheels, the wings being covered with eyes. The representations of it are evidently suggested by the vision of Ezekiel (ch. i.)

lored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively. Green ultramarine, a green pigment obtained as a first product in the manufacture of ultramarine, into which it is changed by subsequent treatment. -- Ultramarine ash or ashes (Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli aft…

One who maintains extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy. See Ultramontanism.

The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; -- rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims.…

One who upholds ultramontanism.

Being beyond the world, or beyond the limits of our system. Boyle.

Not hampered or impeded; free. [Written also untrammelled.]

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps, and vagabonds; flash.