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Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

The science of the distribution and management of land.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

Without female organs; male.

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; to confess. [Obs.]

A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign

e which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from t…

The state or condition of being an albino; albinism.

Affected with albinism.

Resembling albumin. -- n.

Of the nature of an albuminoid.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.

ining, albumen; having the properties of, or resembling, albumen or albumin. -- Al*bu"mi*nous*ness, n.

Of or pertaining to alburnum; of the alburnum; as, alburnous substances.

The bark of several trees, esp. of Bowdichia virgilioides of Brazil, used as a remedy for consumption; of Byrsonima crassifolia, used in tanning; of Alchornea latifolia, used medicinally; or of Quercus ilex, the cork tree.

Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. -- n.