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A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance obtained by the reduction of isatin. It is a member of the indol series; -- hence its name.

The condition of being diplostemonous.

A crystalline nitrogenous base, C10H8N2, obtained by the reduction of pyridine.

The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any homogenous function of n variables. See Eliminant.

Poetic & Rare] [Written also dispunge.] O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me. Shak.

One of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as containing two molecules of urea or their radicals, as uric acid or allantoin. Cf. Ureide.

Having in the head a sensation of whirling, with a tendency to fall; vertiginous; giddy; hence, confused; indistinct. Alas! his brain was dizzy. Drayton.

A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs.

y. -- Donkey's eye (Bot.), the large round seed of the Mucuna pruriens, a tropical leguminous plant.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds.

A luminous exhalation from marshy grounds, seeming to move through the air as a winged serpent.

A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as:

The genus to which belongs the single species D. Camphora, a lofty resinous tree of Borneo and Sumatra, yielding Borneo camphor and camphor oil.

The heartwood of an exogenous tree.

Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble.

A resinous substance formed in the decomposition of cholic acid of bile; -- so called because it is difficult to solve.

An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice. Meissner.

Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human. Some earthborn giant. Milton.

A species of pea (Amphicarpæa monoica). It is a climbing leguminous plant, with hairy underground pods.