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A violet dye derived from aniline.

An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.

The mistletoe. [Obs.] Baret.

The state of being moldy.

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

See Muscardin. Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it. -- Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

Same as Naphthylamine.

Of or pertaining to nard; having the qualities of nard.

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

, isomeric with nicotine, and obtained by the reduction of certain derivatives of the pyridine group.

One of a series of bases containing the amido and the isonitroso groups united to the same carbon atom.

A mixture of two parts of the oil of roses with one of the vinegar of roses. Floyer.

Of or pertaining to a marsh. Buckland.

An instrument to avert the occurrence of hailstorms. See Paragr. Knight.

Spotted like a pard. Pardine lynx (Zoöl.), a species of lynx (Felis pardina) inhabiting Southern Europe. Its color is rufous, spotted with black.

A nitrogenous hydrocarbon base, C13H9N, analogous to phenanthrene and quinoline.

Having phyllodia; relating to phyllodia.