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Grooves or furrows formed in snow by the action of the wind, and running parallel with the direction of the wind. This formation results from the erosion of transverse waves previously formed.

A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque.

A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.

A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing states. [Written also sax.]

A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc. [Burmah]

Capable of being acclimatized.

The act of acclimatizing; the process of inuring to a new climate, or the state of being so inured. Darwin.

The act or process of achromatizing.

A making actual or really existent. [R.] Emerson.

The reducing or lands or tenements to mortmain. See Mortmain.

Capable of being aggrandized.

Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

A fortress; also, a royal palace. Prescott.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.

A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds.

To alkalizate. [R.] Johnson.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.

See Alcazar.