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A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

Half-rotten; as, doted wood. [Local, U. S.]

Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]

Divided into two; acting two parts, one openly and the other secretly; equivocal; deceitful; insincere. With a double heart do they speak. Ps. xii. 2.

coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

he dreary ground." Prior. Full many a dreary anxious hour. Keble. Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary part of that dreary interval which separated two ages of prosperity. Macaulay.

To be suffocated in water or other fluid; to perish in water. Methought, what pain it was to drown. Shak.

A tea party; a kettledrum. G. Eliot. Bass drum. See in the Vocabulary. -- Double drum. See under Double.

ial drift or till, usually elongate or oval, with the larger axis parallel to the former local glacial motion.

A fruit consisting of pulpy, coriaceous, or fibrous exocarp, without valves, containing a nut or stone with a kernel. The exocarp is succulent in the plum, cherry, apricot, peach, etc.; dry and subcoriaceous in the almond; and fibrous in the cocoanut.

Occasioning doubt; not clear, or obvious; equivocal; questionable; doubtful; as, a dubious answer. Wiping the dingy shirt with a still more dubious pocket handkerchief. Thackeray.

A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.

The hedge sparrow or hedge accentor. [Local, Eng.]

A colorless, crystalline, aromatic hydrocarbon, C6H2(CH3)4, off artificial production, with an odor like camphor.

A difficulty in producing vocal sounds; enfeebled or depraved voice.

The Chinese yellow antelope (Procapra gutturosa), a remarkably swift-footed animal, inhabiting the deserts of Central Asia, Thibet, and China.

; heartfelt; fervent; hearty; -- used in a good sense; as, earnest prayers. An earnest advocate to plead for him. Shak.

The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum.

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

The tubers of Colocasia antiquorum. See Taro.