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d woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor.

A general name for all those placental mammals that have a brain with few or no cerebral convolutions, as Rodentia, Insectivora, etc.

(Min.), a kind of serpentine from near Lizard Point, Cornwall, England, -- used for ornamental purposes.

Local color. (a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not caused by accidental influences, as of reflection, shadow, etc. (b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is laid. -- Local option, the right or obligation of determining by popular vo…

ender racemes of white, fragrant, papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree. In England it is called acacia.

Detrimental. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A large ornamental drinking vessel having two or more handles, intended to pass from hand to hand, as at a banquet.

A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.

e influenced by the changes of the moon; any form of unsoundness of mind, except idiocy; mental derangement or alienation. Brande. Burrill. Your kindred shuns your house As beaten hence by your strange lunacy. Shak.

Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line.

Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]

A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character. Pope.

[Hind.] In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.

f succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

ort the face as an expression of pain or derision. -- To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. -- To make water. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. -- To make way, or To make one's way. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. -- To make words, to multi…

in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.

A moral or mental defect or disorder. Love's a malady without a cure. Dryden.

The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

man race. Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties. Cowper.