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A genus of composite plants, with shining, commonly white or yellow, or sometimes reddish, radiated involucres, which are often called "everlasting flowers."

A glucoside obtained as a white crystalline substance by partial oxidation of salicin, from a willow (Salix Helix of Linnæus.)

opical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

f the poisonous liliaceous genus Veratrum, especially V. album and V. viride, both called white hellebore.

ous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.

A poisonous glucoside found in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a sharp tingling taste. It possesses the essential virtues of the plant; -- called also elleborin.

The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.

A thorny tree or shrub of the genus Lawsonia (L. alba). The fragrant white blossoms are used by the Buddhists in religious ceremonies. The powdered leaves furnish a red coloring matter used in the East to stain the hails and fingers, the manes of horses, etc.

A rare fluophosphate of glucina, in small white crystals.

A celebrated French wine, both white and red, of the Department of Drôme.

A white, crystalline substance having a sweetish taste, obtained by the decomposition of hesperidin, and regarded as a complex derivative of caffeic acid.

A glucoside found in ripe and unripe fruit (as the orange), and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

y; -- frequently the very reverse of the thought which is present to consciousness. R. G. White.

ken by native Hindoos. In employs the Devanagari character, in which Sanskrit is written. Whitworth.

A name applied to either of two ridges of white matter in each lateral ventricle of the brain. The larger is called hippocampus major or simply hippocampus. The smaller, hippocampus minor, is called also ergot and calcar.

Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid. Hippuric acid, a white crystalline substance, containing nitrogen, present in the urine of herbivorous animals, and in small quantity in human urine. By the action of acids, it is decomposed into benzoic acid and glycocoll.

White, or grayish white: as, hoar frost; hoar cliffs. "Hoar waters." Spenser.

The white particles formed by the congelation of dew; white frost. [Written also horefrost. See Hoar, a.] He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. Ps. cxlvii. 16.

White or whitish."The hoary willows." Addison.

valued for the large amount of milk produced by the cows. The color is usually black and white in irregular patches.