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ous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

Deadly nightshade.

eight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates - or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

rties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

, a. Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

n said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope.

ise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow. He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane. Cowley.

An omen; a foreshadowing. [Obs.] The owl eke, that of death the bode bringeth. Chaucer.

The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow. Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. Col. ii. 17.

Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden.

A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]