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A white, crystalline, nitrogenous substance, obtained by the reduction of allantoïn.

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. Ure.

A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet Willi…

A California marine fish of an orange or red color; the garibaldi.

The moor cock, or red grouse. See Grouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Decomposed rock, usually reddish or ferruginous (owing to oxidized pyrites), forming the upper part of a metallic vein.

To reduce to a level, or to an evenly progressive ascent, as the line of a canal or road.

The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.

t down in order not to impair the grandiose effect of the whole. M. Arnold. The grandiose red tulips which grow wild. C. Kingsley.

ck, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and therefor in being destitute of a schistose structure.

One of the small, red, grainlike prominences which form on a raw surface (that of wounds or ulcers), and are the efficient agents in the process of healing.

(Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the larval state eats the interior of grapes, and often binds them together with silk.…

outh. Panicum jumentorum. Herd's grass, in New England Timothy, in Pennsylvania and South Redtop. Indian grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. Sorghum Halepense. Kentucky blue grass, pasture. Poa pratensis. Lyme grass,…

ent of its ravages in the region beyond the Mississippi. In the Eastern United States the red-legged (Caloptenus femurrubrum and C. atlanis) are closely related species, but their ravages are less important. They are closely related to the migratory locusts of the Old World. See Locust.

To reduce to small particles by rubbing with anything rough or indented; as, to grate a nutmeg.

A kind of fall apple, marked with streaks of deep red and orange, and of excellent flavor and quality.

The redbreasted sandpiper or knot.

Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process.

A bright-colored South African grosbeak (Pyromelana orix), having the back red and the lower parts black.

for making flutes and other wind instruments; -- called also Grenada cocos, or cocus, and red ebony.