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ky-colored; blue; azure. Cowper. Blue, blue, as if that sky let fall A flower from its cerulean wall. Bryant.

A fast dyestuff, C20H8O6, made by heating gallein with strong sulphuric acid. It dyes mordanted fabrics green.

Cerulean. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Tending to cerulean; light bluish.

A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consisting essentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it does not change color by gaslight.

A peculiar rounded granule of some mineral, usually enstatite or chrysolite, found imdedded more or less aboundantly in the mass of many meteoric stones, which are hence called chondrites.

See Jowl. Sir W. Scott.

A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

Full of ashes. [Obs.]

A circlet. [Obs.] Spenser.

Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable. Milman.

The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ. [Obs.]

One of the corneas of a compound eye in the invertebrates. Carpenter.

A coronet or little crown of a seed; the downy tuft on seeds. See Pappus. Martyn.

Thickness; density; compactness. [Obs.] The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray.

Very fat; obese.

In a corpulent manner.

A corpuscle. [Obs.]

A stream; (Geol.)