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See Quinidine.

A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called al…

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

Contemptuously. [R.]

A bitter principle obtained from dogwood (Cornus florida), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also cornic acid.

Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. Burrill.

The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as a product of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basic properties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.

ction of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

A mode of harrowing crosswise, or transversely to the ridges. Crabb.

A supposed alkaloid obtained from croton oil by boiling it with water and magnesia, since found to be merely a magnesia soap of the oil. Watts.

Knowing; skillfull; dexterous. "A cunning workman." Ex. xxxviii. 23. "Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. Shak. Esau was a cunning hunter. Gen xxv. 27.

In a cunning manner; with cunning.

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. [Obs.] Hudibras.

Quality of being cunning; craft.

The blue coloring matter of flowers; -- called also anthokyan and anthocyanin.

One of a series of artificial blue or red dyes obtained from quinoline and lepidine and used in calico printing.

A peculiar mucilaginous substance extracted from the seeds of the quince (Cydonia vulgaris), and regarded as a variety of amylose.

That damns; damnable; as, damning evidence of guilt.

Tendency to bring damnation. "The damningness of them [sins]." Hammond.