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Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.

A tune or air to regulate the movements of the dance so called; a movement in suites, sonatas, symphonies, etc., having the dance form, and commonly in 3-4, sometimes 3-8, measure.

of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon.

n; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste. Percy.

to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.

Common potash mica. See Mica.

btained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.…

Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey.

A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.

of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exuds from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, a…

uantities in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance of a bitter astringent taste. It is a narcotic. Called also narceia.

An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a white crystalline substance, tasteless and less poisonous than morphine; -- called also narcotia.

pecies of cress. They are found chiefly in wet or damp grounds, and have a pungent biting taste.

ralis), somewhat resembling a truffle, but much larger. -- Native devil. (Zoöl.) Same as Tasmanian devil, under Devil. -- Native hen (Zoöl.), an Australian rail (Tribonyx Mortierii). -- Native pheasant. (Zoöl.) See Leipoa. -- Native rabbit (Zoöl.), an Australian marsupial (Perameles lagotis) resembling a rabbit in…

t is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.

In a neat manner; tidily; tastefully.

hak. This, my long suffering and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. Milton.

Belonging to, or designating, the modern revival of classical, esp. Greco-Roman, taste and manner of work in architecture, etc.

aving a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.