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A sum formerly levied to pay the expense of coinage; -- now called seigniorage.

Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling a perch.

See Brassart.

A genus of plants embracing several species ad varieties differing much in appearance and qualities: such as the common cabbage (B. oleracea), broccoli, cauliflowers, etc.; the wild turnip (B. campestris); the common turnip (B. rapa); the rape of coleseed (B. napus), etc.

Related to, or resembling, the cabbage, or plants of the Cabbage family.

A form of woman's underwaist stiffened with whalebones, or the like, and worn to support the breasts.

The state, conditions, or quality of being brassy. [Colloq.]

Of or pertaining to brass; having the nature, appearance, or hardness, of brass.

To burst. [Obs.] And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser.

A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chess or cheat.

A grass growing in bunches and affording pasture. In California, Atropis tenuifolia, Festuca scabrella, and several kinds of Stipa are favorite bunch grasses. In Utah, Eriocoma cuspidata is a good bunch grass.

Grass of the genus Cenchrus, growing in sand, and having burs for fruit.

n 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type.…

A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebræ.

A kind of linen cloth made in Egypt, and so named from its resemblance to cambric.

A form of scarlet fever characterized by ulcerated or putrid sore throat.

A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum; -- called also meta-arabinic acid.

Pertaining to, or containing, cerasin.

A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.