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Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba. -- n. sing. & pl.

Having seven units of attractive force or affinity; -- said of heptad elements or radicals.

Having a valence of six; -- said of hexads.

Made hollow; bent round or in.

Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression.

Set; fast; fixed. Dr. John Smith.

Undepraved. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Between valves.

Irrelevancy.

The quality or state of being irrelevant; as, the irrelevancy of an argument.

Not relevant; not applicable or pertinent; not bearing upon or serving to support; foreign; extraneous; as, testimony or arguments irrelevant to a case. -- Ir*rel"a*vant*ly, adv.

Java coffee, a kind of coffee brought from Java. Java cat (Zoöl.), the musang. -- Java sparrow (Zoöl.), a species of finch (Padda oryzivora), native of Java, but very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also ricebird, and paddy bird. In the male the upper parts are glaucous gray, the head and tail black, the under…

Of or pertaining to Java, or to the people of Java. -- n. sing. & pl.

Polynesians, by a process of mastication; also, the beverage itself. [Written also kawa, kava, and ava.]

An armed constable; also, a government servant or courier. [Turkey]

A neck ornament consisting of a chain and single pendant, or drop.

The melted rock ejected by a volcano from its top or fissured sides. It flows out in streams sometimes miles in length. It also issues from fissures in the earth's surface, and forms beds covering many square miles, as in the Northwestern United States.

A European whitefish (Coregonus laveretus), found in the mountain lakes of Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland.

Like lava, or composed of lava; lavic.

A washing or cleansing. [Obs. or R.]