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The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

ployed as a febrifuge or antiperiodic. Called also quinia, quinina, etc. [Written also chinine.]

The state of being rainy.

Of or pertaining to the frogs and toads.

A bitter white crystalline alkaloid extracted from the seeds of the castor-oil plant.

derivatives, and used in dyeing silk and wool; also, any one of the series of which safranine proper is the type.

Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of mercurial; as, a saturnine person or temper. Addison.

Quality of being skinny.

A poisonous alkaloid glucoside extracted from the berries of common nightshade (Solanum nigrum), and of bittersweet, and from potato sprouts, as a white crystalline substance having an acrid, burning taste; -- called also solonia, and solanina.

Quality of being spiny.

A mineral of a steel

The quality or state of being stony.

Struthious.

A very poisonous alkaloid resembling brucine, obtained from various species of plants, especially from species of Loganiaceæ, as from the seeds of the St. Ignatius bean (Strychnos Ignatia) and from nux vomica. It is obtained as a white crystalline substance, having a very bitter acrid taste, and is employed in medicine…

Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied, in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Pliocene period.

The quality or state of being sunny.

The quality or state of being tawny.

An artificial red or violet dyestuff consisting of a complex sulphur derivative of certain aromatic diamines, and obtained as a dark crystalline powder; -- called also phenylene violet.

An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

Of or pertaining to the Vespertiliones.