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A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant. [R.]

Twilight; gloaming. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wright.

See under Dead, a.

The act or process of rendering impervious to sound, as a floor or wall; also, the material with which the spaces are filled in this process; pugging.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

A dragon fly. See Darning needle, under Darn, v. t.

from Dine, a.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.

In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.

That divines; for divining. Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

In a divining manner.

The quality or state of being downy.

A red resin forming the essential basis of dragon's blood; -- called also dracin.

The art of carrying off surplus water, as from land. Draining tile. Same as Draintile.

y in the plural. As to the common people, their stock is in their persons and in their earnings. Burke.

See Pyroxanthin.

Of or pertaining to ivory. "[She] read from tablet eburnine." Sir W. Scott.

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.