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An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping. [Scot.]

A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey.

The wild dog of northern India (Cuon primævus), supposed by some to be an ancestral species of the domestic dog.

A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible.

A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

excelsa) by melting in hot water and straining through cloth. The genuine Burgundy pitch, supposed to have been first prepared in Burgundy, is rare, but there are many imitations. It has a yellowish brown color, is translucent and hard, but viscous. It is used in medicinal plasters.

A plant (Herniaria glabra) supposed to be valuable for the cure of hernia or rupture.

Pyrenees, who until 1793 were political and social outcasts (Christian Pariahs). They are supposed to be a remnant of the Visigoths.

te herbaceous plants. One species, Calendula officinalis, is the common marigold, and was supposed to blossom on the calends of every month, whence the name.

ower of producing heat; -- applied to foods which, being rich in carbon, as the fats, are supposed to give rise to heat in the animal body by oxidation.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

A sirup prepared from the maiden-hair, formerly supposed to have medicinal properties.

A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone. It has eight scepters or staves radiating from a common center. Called also escarbuncle.

als which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.

A small war club, esp. of savages; -- so called because of its supposed use in crushing the skull.

tic power is ill understood." Ure. Catalytic force, that form of chemical energy formerly supposed to determine catalysis.

A plume-shaped fossil, supposed to be a seaweed, characteristic of the lower Devonian rocks; as, the cauda galli grit. Gauda galli epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the begining of the Devonian age in eastern America, so named from the characteristic gritty sandstone marked with impressions of cauda galli. See the Diagram und…

A supposed new element of the rare-earth group, accompanying lutecium and scandium in the gadolinite earths. Symbol, Ct (no period).