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A perennial, creeping grass (Cynodon dactylon), highly prized, in Hindostan, as food for cattle, and acclimated in the United States. [Written also doub grass.]

A species of palm tree (Hyphæne Thebaica), highly valued for the fibrous pulp of its fruit, which has the flavor of gingerbread, and is largely eaten in Egypt and Abyssinia. [Written also doum palm.]

hind toe double. There are several strains, as the white, gray, and silver-gray. They are highly esteemed for the table.

A person highly revered. [Obs.] "Una, his dear dread." Spenser.

An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.

To excite suddenly and violently, esp. by something highly delightful or inspiriting; to thrill; as, this patriotic sentiment electrified the audience. If the sovereign were now to immure a subject in defiance of the writ of habeas corpus . . . the whole nation would be instantly electrified by the news. Macaulay. Try…

That which is elegant; that which is tasteful and highly attractive. The beautiful wildness of nature, without the nicer elegancies of art. Spectator.

ion by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

That which captivates the heart and senses; an influence or power which fascinates or highly delights. Such an enchantment as there is in words. South.

A genus of highly ornate and brilliantly colored birds of Australia, allied to the birds of Paradise.

s plants somewhat like thistles in appearance. Eryngium maritimum, or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being formerly candied.

Containing the essence or characteristic portion of a substance, as of a plant; highly rectified; pure; hence, unmixed; as, an essential oil. "Mine own essential horror." Ford.

That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. The feast of reason, and the flow of soul. Pope. Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemo

The Chinese name for a highly prized variety of pale green jade. See Jade.

A sword bearing the mark of one of the Ferrara family of Italy. These swords were highly esteemed in England and Scotland in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Ambounding in figures of speech; flowery; florid; as, a highly figurative description.

Highly actinic light, derived from sunlight or from some form of electric lamp, used in the treatment of lupus and other cutaneous affections.

Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.

Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [Written also forced meat.]

cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the free state, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, the fulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used, mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc. -- Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.…