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e is said to be demulcent and diuretic; its ashes are used in Spain in making glass. Ice-skater = one who skates on ice wearing an ice skate; esp. an athlete who performs athletic or artistic movements on a sheet of ice, wearing ice skates; including speed skater and figure skater

One of the spiny plates foundon the back and tail of certain skates.

Not partible; not subject to partition; indivisible; as, an impartible estate. Blackatone.

ives, by a process of reduction. It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, by putrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present in human excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of some herbivora.

ing of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. "Learn to do well." Is. i. 17. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matt. xxiv. 32.

ater course or way; a reach of water. Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph. C. Kingsley.

Talkative; babbling; loquacious. Shak.

Given to continual talking; talkative; garrulous. Loquacious, brawling, ever in the wrong. Dryden.

habit or practice of talking continually or excessively; inclination to talk too much; talkativeness; garrulity. Too great loquacity and too great taciturnity by fits. Arbuthnot.

The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.] Fair maid. (Zoöl.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; - - usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. S…

stive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).

Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words; talkativeness.

Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.

r. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color. [Written also muskat.]

Connected with both the nose and the mouth; as, the nasobuccal groove in the skate.

A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

The Moor is of a free and open nature. Shak. The French are always open, familiar, and talkative. Addison.

en gold. Milton. Pavement teeth (Zoöl.), flattened teeth which in certain fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side by side, like tiles in a pavement.

A certain fancy figure in skating.

g an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at. Now must the world point at poor Katharine. Shak. Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. Dryden.