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a direct, as distinguished from a revealed, knowledge of God, supposed to be attained by extraordinary illumination; especially, a direct insight into the processes of the divine mind, and the interior relations of the divine nature.

Fig.: Extravagant; exaggerated; high-flown. "Three-piled hyperboles." Shak.

throw in an occasional comment. (c) To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain. -- To throw off. (a) To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease. (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent. (c) To make a st…

A substance extracted from trees of the genus Thuja, or Thuya, and probably identical with quercitrin. [Written also thujin.]

enol derivative of cymene, C10H13.OH, isomeric with carvacrol, found in oil of thyme, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a pleasant aromatic odor and strong antiseptic properties; -- called also hydroxy cymene.

A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. [Eng.]

de wave, under Tide. Cf. 4th Bore. (b) A vast, swift wave caused by an earthquake or some extraordinary combination of natural causes. It rises far above high-water mark and is often very destructive upon low-lying coasts.

The finer and more volatile parts of a substance, separated by a solvent; an extract of a part of the substance of a body communicated to the solvent.

by saffron. His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance. Addison.

d by the touch of certain substances, as keen acids. -- Tooth key, an instrument used to extract teeth by a motion resembling that of turning a key. -- Tooth net, a large fishing net anchored. [Scot.] Jamieson. -- Tooth ornament. (Arch.) Same as Dogtooth, n., 2.Tooth paste, a paste for cleaning the teeth; a dentifri…

One whose business it is to extract teeth with instruments; a dentist. Shak.

One that excels, surpasses, or is extraordinary of its kind. [Slang]

Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in speculation, imagery, or diction.

To extract (ores) from the slimes in which they are contained, by means of a trunk. See Trunk, n., 9. Weale.

Turmeric oil, a brownish yellow, oily substance extracted from turmeric by ligroin.

An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.

(Paint.), a pigment which is the residuum of lapis lazuli after the ultramarine has been extracted. It was used by the old masters as a middle or neutral tint for flesh, skies, and draperies, being of a purer and tenderer gray that produced by the mixture of more positive colors. Fairholt.

Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical; also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than the tropics.

A glucoside extracted from the leaves of a certain plant (Urechitis suberecta) as a bitter white crystalline substance.

A poisonous glucoside found accompanying urechitin, and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance.