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The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.

A pretender to philosophy. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

A genus of South American palm trees, the seeds of which furnish the substance called vegetable ivory.

Having or producing two or more phases; multiphase; as, a polyphase machine, a machine producing two or more pressure waves of electro-motive force, differing in phase; a polyphase current.

A machine generating more than one pressure wave; a multiphaser.

Haste or speed in traveling, like that of a post or courier. Shak.

Foreknowledge of a disease; prognosis.

Capable of being bought, purchased, or obtained for a consideration; hence, venal; corrupt. Money being the counterbalance to all things purchasable by it, as much as you take off from the value of money, so much you add to the price of things exchanged. Locke.

ire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling. Shak. His faults . . . hereditary Rather than purchased. Shak.

One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of money; a buyer; a vendee.

To chase again; to chase or drive back.

To hash over again; to prepare or use again; as, to rehash old arguments.

To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.

The scarf of a turban. [Obs.] Fuller.

A mountain peak, etc., in California.

A large-flowered garden variety of the oxeye daisy.

A Californian fir (Abies shastensis).

A game like California Jack, except that the pack drawn from is turned face down.

A treatise for authoritative instruction among the Hindoos; a book of institutes; especially, a treatise explaining the Vedas. [Written also sastra.]

The act of riding steeple chases.