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A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyræ, or Vega.

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, etc. Also, fig., a medley.

) very popular in cultivation, having shining entire leaves and racemes of small fragrant white flowers.

A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

agellenic clouds (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south pole, resembling thin white clouds.

tate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth. Ure.

A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium. Magnesia alba Etym: [L.] (Med. Chem.), a bulky white amorphous substance…

Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illumi…

A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.

The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

ood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart. -- Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her marriage. -- Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink. -- Maiden plum (Bot.), a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The sap of the tr…

A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.

A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.