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A white crystalline alkaloid, C8H15NO, produced by decomposing atropine.

Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful. Vulpine phalangist (Zoöl.), an Australian carnivorous marsupial (Phalangista, or Trichosurus, vulpina); -- called also vulpine phalanger, and vulpine opossum.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

ortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

A spine or prickly fin.

Having the fruit covered with spines.

A group of intestinal worms, having the proboscis armed with recurved spines.

Spine-bearing. Gray.

f fishes having some of the rays of the dorsal, ventral, and anal fins unarticulated and spinelike, as the perch.

Having fins in which the rays are hard and spinelike; spiny- finned.

A cooperator. [R.] Success unto our valiant general, And happiness to his accomplices! Shak.

Needle-shaped, having a sharp, rigid point, as the leaf of the pine.

One of the needlelike or bristlelike spines or prickles of some animals and plants; also, a needlelike crystal.

Having straight projecting spines.

More. True religion . . . proposes for its end the joint advancement of the virtue and happiness of the people. Horsley.

whatever; every; as, all the wheat; all the land; all the year; all the strength; all happiness; all abundance; loss of all power; beyond all doubt; you will see us all (or all of us). Prove all things: hold fast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21.

Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." F. Harrison.

A gaseous hydrocarbon, C3H4, homologous with acetylene; propine. CH3.C.CH

Growing in Alpine regions.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.