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A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.

Any projection or division, especially one of a somewhat rounded form; as:

Lobiped.

Having lobes; lobate.

A bird having lobate toes; esp., a phalarope.

A small lobe; a lobule.

A genus of plants, including a great number of species. Lobelia inflata, or Indian tobacco, is an annual plant of North America, whose leaves contain a poisonous white viscid juice, of an acrid taste. It has often been used in medicine as an emetic, expectorant, etc. L. cardinalis is the cardinal flower, remarkable for…

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic and diaphoretic.

A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves of Indian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having a tobaccolike taste and odor.

nism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.

Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] Milton.

king of Thebes. Her pride in her children provoked Apollo and Diana, who slew them all. Niobe herself was changed by the gods into stone.

manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

See Nitrobenzene.

f men and women who work for the interests of humanity, established by the will of A. B. Nobel (1833- 96), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate for this purpose. They are awarded yearly for what is regarded as the most important work during the year in physics, chemistry, medicine or physiology,…

Fine lines ruled on glass in a series of groups of different closeness of line, and used to test the power of a microscope.

Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.

e or cider made in that month. The country gentlemen had a posset or drink they called October. Emerson.

Palmate, with the divisions separated less than halfway to the common center.