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To exceed in sparkling.

A variety of dolomite.

Imperfect or partial transparency.

Half or imperfectly transparent.

A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.

Not perfectly transparent.

To be, or cause to be, transparent; to appear, or cause to appear, or be seen, through something. [Obs.] Stirling.

The quality or state of being transparent; transparency.

The quality or condition of being transparent; transparence.

t bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent diamond; -- opposed to Ant: opaque. "Transparent elemental air." Milton.

Having spars smaller than the usual dimension; -- said of vessels.

To take the spars, stakes, or bars from. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

Not sparing; not parsimonious; liberal; profuse. Burke.

The reed warbler. [Prov. Eng.]

Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions. Instances of longevity are chiefly among the abstemious. Arbuthnot.

The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.

To revile; to reproach coarsely; to disparage. The . . . tellers of news abused the general. Macaulay.

A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, or orthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; -- called by lapidaries moonstone.

Accidentally or sparingly spontaneous in a country or district; not fully naturalized; adventive; -- applied to foreign plants.

ombine or charge with gas; usually with carbonic acid gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.