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Half or imperfectly transparent; translucent. Woodward.

Hence, the place or original stock whence anything is brought or produced. [Obs.] Woodward.

al world, should gravity once cease, . . . would instantly shiver into millions of atoms. Woodward.

To bend or curve in and out; to wind; to turn; to be sinusous. Woodward.

rt. Matter, being impotent, sluggish, and inactive, hath no power to stir or move itself. Woodward. And the sluggish land slumbers in utter neglect. Longfellow.

e. Nor do metals only sort and herd with metals in the earth, and minerals with minerals. Woodward. The illiberality of parents towards children makes them base, and sort with any company. Bacon.

A mineral consisting of tin ore and spar. Halliwell. Woodward. Squat snipe (Zoöl.), the jacksnipe; -- called also squatter. [Local, U.S.]

A stalactite. [Obs.] Woodward.

roductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.

way over the water, had power to still and compose it, as well as to move and disturb it. Woodward.

te the latitude of the curse upon the earth, or stint it only to the production of weeds. Woodward. She stints them in their meals. Law.

nstruction. Want of insight into the structure and constitution of the terraqueous globe. Woodward.

ior position. The several kinds and subordinate species of each are easily distinguished. Woodward.

lent; listless. He became pusillanimous and supine, and openly exposed to any temptation. Woodward.

Suppositional; hypothetical. [R.] Woodward. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Sup*pos`i*ti"tious*ness, n.

The state of being sure; certainty. For more sureness he repeats it. Woodward. The law holds with equal sureness for all right action. Emerson.

rm or position of the earth, as was surmised by a very learned man, but by dissolving it. Woodward.

Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated. Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.

trees, water, or the like; as, terrestrial serpents. The terrestrial parts of the globe. Woodward.

bstitution of one thing for another. There happened certain translocations at the deluge. Woodward.