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A loose, earthy deposit from water, found in the cavities or clefts of rocks, mostly white, but sometimes red or yellow, from a mixture of clay or ocher. P. Cleaveland.

A colorless liquid, C6H4,OCH3.OH, resembling the phenols, found as a constituent of woodtar creosote, aud produced by the dry distillation of guaiac resin.

-- Guinea pepper (Bot.), the pods of the Xylopia aromatica, a tree of the order Anonaceæ, found in tropical West Africa. They are also sold under the name of Piper Æthiopicum. --Guinea pig.

e in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. Selden.

ss, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.

ouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird. The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains. Byron.

A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, or Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling water, and, on cooling, retains its new shape. It dissolves in oils and ethers, but not in water. In many of its properties it res…

A plant, Globularia Alypum, a violent purgative, found in Africa.

One of a sect of philosophers, said to have been found in India by Alexander the Great, who went almost naked, denied themselves the use of flesh, renounced bodily pleasures, and employed themselves in the contemplation of nature.

A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.

el. It is used with certain consonants to form digraphs representing sounds which are not found in the alphabet, as sh, th, th, as in shall, thing, thine (for zh see §274); also, to modify the sounds of some other letters, as when placed after c and p, with the former of which it represents a compound sound like that o…

Place where anything is commonly found. This word has its habitat in Oxfordshire. Earle.

An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation.

A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.

A brownish substance sometimes found in the blood, in cases of jaundice.

One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood corpuscle, supposed by some to be an early stage in the development of the red corpuscles; -- called also blood plaque, and blood plate.

Certain species of nematodes of the genus Filaria, sometimes found in the blood of man, the horse, the dog, etc.

A plant found growing in salt marshes, or in the sea.

jections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygæna is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.