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To shine forth. "Bright, outshining beams." Shak.

To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak.

A colorless gas, PH3, analogous to ammonia, and having a disagreeable odor resembling that of garlic. Called also hydrogen phosphide, and formerly, phosphureted hydrogen.

A yellowish coloring matter found in certain algæ.

Of or pertaining to Phyllorhina and other related genera of bats that have a leaflike membrane around the nostrils.

Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

The quality or state of being pithy.

Having the nose broad; -- opposed to Ant: leptorhine. -- n. (Zoöl.)

The state of being poachy; marshiness.

The quality or state of being praiseworthy.

A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator.

Of or pertaining to Rhadamanthus; rigorously just; as, a Rhadamanthine judgment.

A water course; a ditch. [Written also rean.] [Prov. Eng.] Macaulay.

Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.

The division of the brain in front of the prosencephalon, consisting of the two olfactory lobes from which the olfactory nerves arise.

A colorless stone of high luster, made of paste. It is much used as an inexpensive ornament.

Like or pertaining to the rhinolophids, or horseshoe bats.

Pertaining to, or designating, a set of astronomical tables computed by Kepler, and founded on the observations of Tycho Brahe; - - so named from Rudolph II., emperor of Germany.

The quality or state of abounding with rushes.

The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.