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, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.

trogenous compound is strongly ignited with carbon and soda or potash. It conducts itself like a member of the halogen group of elements, and shows a tendency to form complex compounds. The name is also applied to the univalent radical, CN (the half molecule of cyanogen proper), which was one of the first compound radi…

Like, or pertaining to, the family Cyathophyllidæ.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an order of plants like the palms, but having exogenous wood. The sago palm is an example.

A musical instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

A fruit like that of the rose, consisting of a cup formed of the calyx tube and receptacle, and containing achenes.

A voracious appetite, like that of a starved dog.

Like the carp (Cyprinus). -- n.

Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidæ.)

Cell-like; -- applied to the corpuscles of lymph, blood, chyle, etc.

To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly.

lies, And cowslips, and kingcups, and loved lilies. Spenser. A college gown That clad her like an April Daffodilly. Tennyson And chance-sown daffodil. Whittier.

To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle. Nor, like a puppy [have I] daggled through the town. Pope.

Of or pertaining to Dalmatia. Dalmatian dog (Zoöl.), a carriage dog, shaped like a pointer, and having black or bluish spots on a white ground; the coach dog.

Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like. "A bed of ancient damask." W. Irving.

Woven like damask. -- n.

Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.

To make, or to act, like a dandy; to dandify.

Like a dandy.