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A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Indifferent; careless; cool.

In a nonchalant, indifferent, or careless manner; coolly.

The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

Oligarchic. Glover.

An order of Annelida which includes the earthworms and related species.

An ingredient of the Mosaic incense, probably the operculum of some kind of strombus. Ex. xxx. 34.

See Archil.

Same as Alkanet, 2. Ainsworth.

ries, plums, or the like, less frequently of nutbearing trees and of sugar maple trees. Orchard grass (Bot.), a tall coarse grass (Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in wh…

The cultivation of orchards.

One who cultivates an orchard.

Pertaining to, or resembling, orichalch; having a color or luster like that of brass. Maunder.

ut inferior in value; a mixed metal of the ancients, resembling brass; -- called also aurichalcum, orichalcum, etc.

Same as Eulachon.

Too much or too frequent change; fickleness. [R.] Beau. & Fl.

To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh.