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A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.

Formerly a large vessel, now a small vessel of glass or other material, used for holding salt on the table.

The old squaw, or long-tailed duck.

A cellar beneath another story wholly or partly underground; usually, a cellar under a cellar.

Superior excellence; extraordinary excellence.

Excellent in an uncommon degree; very excellent. Drayton.

A small male hawk. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer. Torricellian tube, a glass tube thirty or more inches in length, open at the lower end and hermetically sealed at th…

Gun cotton; -- so called because regarded as containing three nitro groups.

Unicellular.

Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellular organism.

Chicken pox.

The flour of a hard and small-grained wheat made into dough, and forced through small cylinders or pipes till it takes a slender, wormlike form, whence the Italian name. When the paste is made in larger tubes, it is called macaroni.

A player on the violoncello.

A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.

Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidæ. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched.…

A cell containing water; specifically (Zoöl.), one of the cells or chambers in which water is stored up in the stomach of a camel.

An abridgment; a compendium or abstract. This is an excellent abbreviature of the whole duty of a Christian. Jer. Taylor.

pletes, perfects, or equips thoroughly; acquirement; attainment; that which constitutes excellence of mind, or elegance of manners, acquired by education or training. "My new accomplishment of dancing." Churchill. "Accomplishments befitting a station." Thackeray. Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, And wisdom fa…

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.