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A nitrogenous, organic base, NH2.OH, resembling ammonia, and produced by a modified reduction of nitric acid. It is usually obtained as a volatile, unstable solution in water. It acts as a strong reducing agent.

. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc.

To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.

One of the Illuminati.

One who, or that which, illuminates.

The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. Fuller.

diately; near at hand; impending; -- said especially of misfortune or peril. "In danger imminent." Spenser.

In an imminent manner.

Undetermined.

See Illumine.

To intersect or penetrate with mines. [Obs.] Drayton.

The native compound of iridium and osmium. It is found in flattened metallic grains of extreme hardness, and is often used for pointing gold pens.

or. The J. officinale, common in the south of Europe, bears white flowers. The Arabian jasmine is J. Sambac, and, with J. angustifolia, comes from the East Indies. The yellow false jasmine in the Gelseminum sempervirens (see Gelsemium). Several other plants are called jasmine in the West Indies, as species of Calotropi…

Spruceness. [Slang, Eng.] Pegge (1814).

Same as Jasmine.

Same as Calcimine.

The state or quality of being limy.

To illumine. [Obs.] Spenser.

(Zoöl.)

Shining with a light due to any of the various causes which produce luminescence.