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The quality or state of being irrefrangible; irrefrangibleness.

Not refrangible; that can not be refracted in passing from one medium to another. -- Ir`re*fran"gi*ble*ness, n.

A large, handsome squirrel (Sciurus Javensis), native of Java and Southern Asia; -- called also Java squirrel.

The carcass of a whale after the blubber has been removed. [Written also crang and kreng.]

A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Written also cranging hook.]

A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.

A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.

Wrong arrangement.

A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown in California.

An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.

See Orang-outang.

l anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabits Borneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang- outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan.]

The tree that bears oranges; the orange tree.

A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.

Candied orange peel; also, orangeade.

Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.

aintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.; -- so called in honor of William, Prince of Orange, who became William III. of England.

An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), having a yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.