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d or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks.

Harsh and offensive, as a color; tawdry or in bad taste, as a combination of colors, or any design or work of art.

The coloring matter of the blood in the living animal; hæmoglobin.

r lamentations; to lament audibly; to express pain, grief, or distress, by weeping and sobbing; to shed tears; to bawl, as a child. Ye shall cry for sorrow of heart. Is. lxv. 14. I could find it in my heart to disgrace my man's apparel and to cry like a woman. Shak.

To bring forth; -- said of animals, or in contempt, of persons. "Cubb'd in a cabin." Dryden.

Presenting a combination of a cube and an octahedron.

A combination of a cube and octahedron, esp. one in which the octahedral faces meet at the middle of the cubic edges.

damine (C. pratensis), or lady's smock. Its leaves are used in salads. Also, the ragged robin (Lychnis Flos- cuculi).

A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake- robin.

considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

A small cabin: also, the galley or kitchen of a vessel.

An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Scilla nutans). [Obs.] A girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips to make garlands. Walton.

love, or that which has an eye to the cupboard. "A cupboard love is seldom true." Poor Robin. [Colloq.] -- To cry cupboard, to call for food; to express hunger. [Colloq.] "My stomach cries cupboard." W. Irving.

Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. [Obs.] When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden.

The quality of bing curt.

pounds; obtained by heating ammonium oxalate, mercuric cyanide, etc. It is obtained in combination, forming an alkaline cyanide when nitrogen or a nitrogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form comp…

A combining form meaning circular, of a circle or wheel.

e; to tap; hence, to besmear with a dabber. A sore should . . . be wiped . . . only by dabbing it over with fine lint. S. Sharp.

which one dabs; hence, a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.