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Manganese spar, or silicate of manganese, a mineral occuring crystallised and in rose-red masses. It is often used as an ornamental stone.

The red pigment contained in the inner segments of the cones of the retina in animals. See Chromophane. W. KÜhne.

The visual purple. See under Visual.

Any seaweed with red spores.

Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.

A method of teaching reading by giving first attention to phrases and sentences and later analyzing these into their verbal and alphabetic components; -- contrasted with alphabet and word methods.

f Shoe.

A fabric of inferior quality made of, or containing a large amount of, shoddy.

A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.

The quality or state of being shoddy. [Colloq.] See the Note under Shoddy, n.

The parting of the hair on the head. [Obs.] Full straight and even lay his jolly shode. Chaucer.

See Shoad, Shoading.

A package of gold beater's skins in which gold is subjected to the second process of beating.

ng shoes or slippers down at the heel. The shivering urchin bending as he goes, With slipshod heels. Cowper.

Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, of indican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathological urines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution a beautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.

Having the feet, or the shoes on the feet, wet.

A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken as single ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic and alphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentence methods.

Having yellow teeth.

An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.

The zooids of a compound anthozoan, collectively.