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The common red variety of garnet.

The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting. The female is olive brown; the male, in summer, mostly crimson; -- called also red waxbill. [Written also amaduvad and avadavat.]

on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. Ure.

A group of large, extinct, herbivorous mammals, common in the Tertiary formation of the United States.

tection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

A rhizopod. common in fresh water, capable of undergoing many changes of form at will. See Rhizopoda.

Of a mixed nature; partaking of two natures. Not in free and common socage, but in this amphibious subordinate class of villein socage. Blackstone.

A common mineral embracing many varieties varying in color and in composition. It occurs in monoclinic crystals; also massive, generally with fibrous or columnar structure. The color varies from white to gray, green, brown, and black. It is a silicate of magnesium and calcium, with usually aluminium and iron. Some comm…

elebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

meric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series. The colorless, volatile, mobile liquid commonly called amylene is a mixture of different members of the group.

This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically. In such expressions as "twice an hour," "once an age," a shilling an ounce (see 2d A, 2), it has a distributive force, and is…

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

sphere is made, having a movable horizon or cursor; -- formerly much used in solving some common astronomical problems.

One who analyzes; formerly, one skilled in algebraical geometry; now commonly, one skilled in chemical analysis.

be destroyed himself. Locke. Anathema Maranatha Etym: (see 1 Cor. xvi. 22), an expression commonly considered as a highly intensified form of anathema. Maran atha is now considered as a separate sentence, meaning, "Our Lord cometh."

The common recoil escapement.

a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. -- Alternate angles. See Alternate. -- Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. -- Angle bead (Arch.),…

To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that. Dr. H. More.

The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation.

Irregular; departing from common or established rules.