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stippus, a disciple of Socrates. Their doctrines were nearly the same as those of the Epicureans.

The dried leaves of the purple foxglove (Digitalis purpurea), used in heart disease, disturbance of the circulation, etc.

One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

To separate; to expel from the system; to excrete; as, the kidneys eliminate urea, the lungs carbonic acid; to eliminate poison from the system.

fficulties, to encounter strong evidence of a truth. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18. I am most fortunate thus accidentally to encounter you. Shak.

enant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering.

A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. [Obs.] Bacon.

Epicurean. [Obs.]

Epicurean habits of living; luxury.

ns become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

That department or bureau of the public service charged with the collection of the excise taxes. [Eng.]

Anything extracted; an extract. Extractives, of which the most constant are urea, kreatin, and grape sugar. H. N. Martin.

A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot.

, high-holder, pigeon woodpecker, and yucca. The cackle of the flicker among the oaks. Thoureau.

Any plant of the genus Digitalis. The common English foxglove (Digitalis purpurea) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See Digitalis. Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run To pluck the speckled foxgloves from their stem. W. Bro…

signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, used by the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost is expected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of the Pacific and the Gulf Mexico.

Pertaining to, derived from, glycol and urea; as, glycoluric acid, which is called also hydantoic acid.

a South African shrubby composite plant with golden yellow flowers, the Chrysocoma Coma-aurea. -- Golden Horde (Hist.), a tribe of Mongolian Tartars who overran and settled in Southern Russia early in the 18th century. -- Golden Legend, a hagiology (the "Aurea Legenda") written by James de Voragine, Archbishop of Ge…

A tall herb (Solidago Virga-aurea), bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree (Bot.), a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.

with methyl in the decomposition of creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea and ammonia.