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Of or pertaining to the chromosphere.

Bearing a tuft of soft hairs or down, as the seeds of milkweed. Gray.

The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

An apparattus for showing the position of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

See Crimson. [Obs.]

See Crimson.

A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

trolytic cell, or on the electric condition of a vacuum has been applied in the various cymoscopes.

Having the nature of a cyme, or derived from a cyme; bearing, or pertaining to, a cyme or cymes.

See Damsel. [Archaic]

Having sixteen leaves to a sheet; as, a decimosexto form, book, leaf, size.

Pertaining to, or in the style of, Demosthenes, the Grecian orator.

See Exoskeleton.

Ossification of the dermis.

Abounding with bushes and briers.

Most eastern.

To discolor by the production of an ecchymosis, or effusion of blood, beneath the skin; -- chiefly used in the passive form; as, the parts were much ecchymosed.

A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus.

In an eleemosynary manner; by charity; charitably.