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A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.

Porcelaneous. Ure.

A hydrous oxide of manganese, occurring in smooth, botryoidal forms, and massive, and having an iron-black or steel-gray color.

Purslane. [Obs.]

To land again; to put on land, as that which had been shipped or embarked.

Renewal. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates, also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and alumina.

Dilatation of the capillary vessels.

Telangiectasis.

Land that is overflowed by tide water; hence, land near the sea.

Of or pertaining to the lighter division of the Melanochroi, or those races having an olive or yellow complexion and black hair.

A pigment giving the black color to the feathers of many birds.

pondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey.

One of the German Protestants who, with Melanchthon, held some opinions and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

To add or annex; to join. Leland.

ed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

The national assembly or parliament of Iceland. See Thing, n., 8.

cumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.

ncient Low German tribe, that settled in Britain, which came to be called Engla-land (Angleland or England). The Angles probably came from the district of Angeln (now within the limits of Schleswig), and the country now Lower Hanover, etc.

Any one of several fungus diseases, caused by parasitic species of the series Melanconiales, attacking the bean, grape, melon, cotton, and other plants. In the case of the grape, brown concave spots are formed on the stem and fruit, and the disease is called bird's-eye rot.