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r coarse features; uncomely; -- contrary to handsome. None so homely but loves a looking-glass. South.

Homogenous; -- applied to that class of homologies which arise from similarity of structure, and which are taken as evidences of common ancestry.

A kind of tobacco moistened with molasses.

Academic or university prizes or distinctions; as, honors in classics.

A bed of earth heated by fermenting manure or other substances, and covered with glass, intended for raising early plants, or for nourishing exotics.

A house for entertaining strangers or travelers; an inn or public house, of the better class.

A kind of sandal worn by Indians and the lower classes generally; --usually used in pl. [Southern U. S. & Mex.]

Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature. Polished with humanity and the study of witty science. Holland.

ourt held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant. Mozley & W.

The process of becoming, or the state of being, transparent like glass.

Glassy; resembling glass; consisting of glass; transparent, like crystal. "Hyaline spaces." Carpenter.

variety of opal in globules looking like colorless gum or resin; -- called also Müller's glass.

An instrument for tracing designs on glass.

Art of writing or engraving on glass.

Resembling glass; vitriform; transparent; hyaline; as, the hyaloid membrane, a very delicate membrane inclosing the vitreous humor of the eye.

her like the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H. Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament. See Glass-rope.

An order of vitreous sponges, having glassy six-rayed, siliceous spicules; -- called also Hexactinellinæ.

A photographic picture copied from the negative on glass; a photographic transparency. R. Hunt.

fluorite, and is usually collected as a solution in water. It attacks all silicates, as glass or porcelain, is the agent employed in etching glass, and is preserved only in vessels of platinum, lead, caoutchouc, or gutta-percha.

The Acalephæ; one of the classes of coelenterates, including the Hydroidea, Discophora, and Siphonophora.