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A mineral usually occurring in fibrous masses, of a brick-red color, being tinged with iron, and consisting chiefly of the sulphates of lime, magnesia, and soda.

A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpels inclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle and partly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.

rayed calicles, and a very porous coral. Some species are branched, others grow in large massive or globular forms.

. 7. Then by main force pulled up, and on his shoulders bore, The gates of Azza, post and massy bar. Milton. Unto his order he was a noble post. Chaucer.

A prayer or prayers which the priest says at Mass, after the ablutions.

bs.] In malice to this good knight's wife, I practiced Ubaldo and Ricardo to corrupt her. Massinger.

snipe (Zoöl.), the upland plover. See Plover, n., 2. -- Prairie rattlesnake (Zoöl.), the massasauga. -- Prairie snake (Zoöl.), a large harmless American snake (Masticophis flavigularis). It is pale yellow, tinged with brown above. -- Prairie squirrel (Zoöl.), any American ground squirrel of the genus Spermophilus, i…

To calculate or determine beforehand; to prearrange. Masson.

d for its support. [U.S.] The parish, or precinct, shall proceed to a new choice. Laws of Massachusetts.

mine beforehand, as witnesses or evidence. A committee of nine precognoscing the chances. Masson.

Going before; preceding. "Our predecessive students." Massinger.

The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass. Addis & Arnold. Proper preface (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.), a portion of the communion service, preceding the prayer of consecration, appointed for certain seasons.

nt recompense." "A present pardon." Shak. An ambassador . . . desires a present audience. Massinger.

Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass. A wild, where weeds and flowers promiscuous shoot. Pope.

A hymn with no regular meter, sometimes introduced into the Mass. See Sequence.

One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

nence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances (Astron.), certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which are seen to extend beyond the edge of the moon at the time of a solar eclipse. They may be discovered with the spectroscope on any clear day. Called also solar prominences. See Illust. in Append…

d silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.

A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

A moist, slightly cohering mass, consisting of soft, undissolved animal or vegetable matter. Specifically: