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A salt of sulphantimonious acid.

A salt of sulpharsenious acid.

One of the orthodox Mohammedans who receive the Sunna as of equal importance with the Koran.

Supineness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite.

Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.

resembling written characters, and hence is called graphic tellurium. [Written also silvanite.]

Habilual silence, or reserve in speaking. The cause of Addison's taciturnity was a natural diffidence in the company of strangers. V. Knox. The taciturnity and the short answers which gave so much offense. Macaulay.

A firm composition of emery and a certain kind of cement, used for making grinding wheels, slabs, etc.

Inflammation of a tendon.

An unknown land; unexplored country.

Earthiness; worldliness. [Obs.] "A dull and low terrenity." Feltham.

ture. It is a hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda. Called also mesole, and comptonite.

One of the rowers on the topmost of the three benches in a trireme.

A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.

See Sphene.

Pertaining to, or containing, titanium; as, a titanitic mineral.

An explosive compound; a preparation of gun cotton.

caceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.

Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare.