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An animalcule.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

Decked with feathers.

The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter taste, and is used as a tonic and antiseptic. [Written also colombo, columbo, and calombo.] American calumba, the Frasera Carolinensis, also called American gentian. Its root has been used…

A bitter principle extracted as a white crystalline substance from the calumba root. [Written also colombin, and columbin]

soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers. Smoked the calumet, the Peace pipe, As a signal to the nations. Lowgfellow.

disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

esentation of the words or actions of another, with a view to injure his good name. The calumniation of her principal counselors. Bacon.

One who calumniates.

Containing calumny; slanderous. Montagu.

Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.

to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

lowers on a very short axis, as a clover top, or a dandelion; a composite flower. A capitulum may be either globular or flat. Gray.

A simple pistil or single-celled ovary or seed vessel, or one of the parts of a compound pistil, ovary, or seed vessel. See Illust of Carpaphore.

The large lobe of the hind brain in front of and above the medulla; the little brain. It controls combined muscular action. See Brain.

An impure aqueous solution of chloride of aluminium, used as an antiseptic and disinfectant.

A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

Silence; hush. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.