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A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usually in the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.

r and lungs, which often cause death. It is the larval stage of the Tænia echinococcus, a small tapeworm peculiar to the dog.

Set with small spines or prickles.

a planet, though of the nature of an eclipse, is called an occultation. The eclipse of a small portion of the sun by Mercury or Venus is called a transit of the planet.

One of the small galleries run out in front of the glacis. They serve to annoy the enemy's miners.

disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.

A contrivance used to supply small quantities of sweetened liquid, water, etc., to any mixture, or to test tubes, etc.; a dropping bottle.

takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.

A redness of the skin; eruption, as in rash, measles, smallpox, scarlatina, etc.

A small sandglass, running about three minutes, for marking time in boiling eggs; also, a small glass for holding an egg, at table.

A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.

A genus of shrubs or small trees, having the foliage covered with small silvery scales; oleaster.

A genus of shrubs (Sambucus) having broad umbels of white flowers, and small black or red berries.

t may be infinitesimal portion between any two planes that are separated and indefinitely small distance. In the calculus, element is sometimes used as synonymous with differential.

ad stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and Arizona.

fish light." Coleridge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

a distance; distance. The distant points in the celestial expanse appear to the eye in so small a degree of elongation from one another, as bears no proportion to what is real. Glanvill.

e introduced by them. The Elzevir editions are valued for their neatness, and the elegant small types used. Brande & C.

A flying off in small particles, as heated iron or fermenting liquors; a sparkling; scintillation. Sir T. Browne.