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lant (Krameria triandra). It is used in medicine and to color port wine. [Written also ratany.] Savanilla rhatany, the root of Krameria Ixina, a native of New Granada.

The language spoken among themselves by the gypsies. [Written also Rommany.]

An incarnation of Satan; a being possessed by a demon. [R.] O. A. Brownson.

See Stannel.

The guillemot. [Prov. Eng.]

Subitaneous; sudden; hasty. [Obs.] Hales.

Subterranean. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.

Sultanry. [Obs.] Fuller.

An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.

A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is large and contains lancelike mandibles and maxillæ. The horseflies and robber flies are examples.

A morbid condition resembling tetanus, but distinguished from it by being less severe and having intermittent spasms.

A manifestation of God to man by actual appearance, usually as an incarnation.

A species of gause, or very silk. The smoke of sulphur . . . is commonly used by women to whiten tiffanies. Sir T. Browne.

Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

Hence, inflation; conceit; bombast; turgidness. "Thine 's a tympany of sense." Dryden. A plethoric a tautologic tympany of sentence. De Quincey.

The radical UO2, conveniently regarded as a residue of many uranium compounds.

Villainy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Villainy.

To wane. [Obs.] Chaucer.

; a buffoon. Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany. Donne. Preacher at once, and zany of thy age. Pope.