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e lenses. Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost,…

ness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.

a cruciferous plant with showy and fragrant blossoms, usually purplish, but often pink or white.

is now an article of export from America to China. The root, when dry, is of a yellowish white color, with a sweetness in the taste somewhat resembling that of licorice, combined with a slight aromatic bitterness.

pouch formerly worn at the girdle. Ld. Lytton. A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as morné milk. Chaucer.

A variety of opal which is usually milk white, bluish white, or sky blue; but in a bright light it reflects a reddish color.

The white of egg. It is used as a size or a glaze in bookbinding, for pastry, etc.

A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxide. It is used for window panes and mirrors, for articles of table and culinary use, for lenses, and various articles of orname…

Sulphate of soda, a well-known cathartic. It is a white crystalline substance, with a cooling, slightly bitter taste, and is commonly called "salts."

An alkaloid obtained from the plant Glaucium, as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic.

Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf. Gray.

s, swimming in the open sea. These mollusks are beautifully colored with blue and silvery white.

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandenscent. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees. Pope.

A white or gray tasteless powder, the oxide of the element glucinum; -- formerly called glucine.

A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its…

ing, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers. Glutaric acid, an organic acid obtained as a white crystalline substance, isomeric with pyrotartaric acid; -- called also normal pyrotartaric acid.

A nitrogenous substance, forming a heavy, sandy powder, white or nearly so. It is a derivative of pyridine.

a sodium salt. The acid commonly forms a resinous mass, but can be crystallized in long, white needles.