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breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amarantus albus, etc.

To form a mass of earth or a hillock about; as, to tump teasel.

le copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface. [Formerly written also turcois, and turkois.]

on of one vegetable cell into the cavity of another, sometimes forming there an irregular mass of cells. Goodale.

al, or the whole quantity of them used in printing, spoken of collectively; any number or mass of such letters or characters, however disposed.

A mineral occurring in white rounded crystalline masses. It is a hydrous borate of lime and soda.

rnatus) of the family Cotingidæ. It is black, with a large handsome crest consisting of a mass of soft, glossy blue feathers curved outward at the tips. It also has a cervical plume consisting of a long, cylindrical dermal process covered with soft hairy feathers. Called also dragoon bird. -- Umbrella leaf (Bot.), an…

den. Unbloody sacrifice. (a) A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.

Not written in a book; unrecorded. "UnbookedEnglish life." Masson.

ical measurements. The various physical units are usually based on given units of length, mass, and time, and on the density or other properties of some substance, for example, water. See Dyne, Erg, Farad, Ohm, Poundal, etc. -- Unit deme (Biol.), a unit of the inferior order or orders of individuality. -- Unit jar (E…

Neglect of duty; idleness; indolence. [Obs.] Massinger.

Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite, porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as the glacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.

to come out of concealment. [Obs.] Massinger.

To sustain; to support. [Obs.] "His massy spear upstayed." Milton.

phibole resulting from the alternation of pyroxene by paramorphism. It is not uncommon in massive eruptive rocks.

y of uranium oxide with some lead, thorium, etc., occurring in black octahedrons, also in masses with a pitchlike luster; pitchblende.

te of iron and carbonate of sodium, mixed with saccharine matter; -- called also Vallet's mass.

An apple-green mineral occurring in reniform masses. It is a hydrous phosphate of alumina.

A genus including several species of large marine gastropods having massive pyriform shells, with conspicuous folds on the columella.

allogens. -- Plants without distinct stem and leaves, consisting of a simple or branched mass of cellular tissue, or educed to a single cell. Reproduction effected variously. Divided into Algæ, which contain chlorophyll or its equivalent, and which live upon air and water, and Fungi, which contain no chlorophyll, and…