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A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains.

A male red deer two years old; -- sometimes called brock.

Beastly; brutal. [Obs.] Bale.

A bully. [Slang Obs.] Shak.

A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gaps where fish traps are placed. Knight.

A printing process depending on the effect of light on bichromatized gelatin. Paper coated with a mixture of the gelatin and a pigment is called carbon paper or carbon tissue. This is exposed under a negative and the film is transferred from the paper to some other support and developed by washing (the unexposed portio…

A kind of pleasure carriage; a coach. [Obs.] To mount two-wheeled caroches. Butler.

Placed in a caroche. [Obs.] Beggary rides caroched. Massenger.

A kind of annelid larva with a circle of cilia around the head.

A green substance, supposed to be the cause of the green color of the blood in some species of worms. Ray Lankester.

See under Rocket.

A kind of boat of various forms, used in the Indian Archipelago.

A name given to any one of several yellow or scarlet dyestuffs of artificial production and complex structure. In general they are diazo and sulphonic acid derivatives of benzene and naphthol.

Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow. [R.]

A dyestuff, obtained from the Chinese croicin, which produces a brilliant yellow.

A little bud or knob at the top of a deer's antler.

A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively. Crochet hook, Crochet needle, a small hook, or a hooked needle (often of bone), used in crochet work.

One who carries the cross before an archbishop. [Obs.]

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite.