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To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children. Bp. Hall.

nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]

A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.

An instrument for obtaining directly, without calculation, the true bearing of the sun, and thence the variation of the compass

Skilled in all kinds of work. "The panurgic Diderot." J. Morley.

Skill in all kinds of work or business; craft. [R.] Bailey.

Excessively sparing in the use of money; sordid; stingy; miserly. "A penurious niggard of his wealth." Milton.

Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. "A penury of military forces." Bacon. They were exposed to hardship and penury. Sprat. It arises in neither from penury of thought. Landor.

The presence of peptone, or a peptonelike body, in the urine.

A salt of succinuric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid amide, analogous to succinamic acid, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by heating urea with succinic anhydride. It is known also in its salts.

A wound healed or healing outwardly only. [Obs.] Of a sursanure In surgery is perilous the cure. Chaucer.

The act or right of holding, as property, especially real estate. That the tenure of estates might rest on equity, the Indian title to lands was in all cases to be quieted. Bancroft.

her bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura.

One of the Thysanura. Also used adjectively.

Of or pertaining to the Thysanura.

Turn; contour; figure.

A nurse who suckles a child, especially the child of another woman. Cf. Dry nurse.

A cabassou.

Any one of several of South African lizards of the genus Zonura, common in rocky situations.