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Not concinnous; unsuitable; discordant. [Obs.] Cudworth.

See Jinnee. "Solomon is said to have had power over the jin." Balfour (Cyc. of India).

e children of fire, and to have the power of assuming various forms. [Written also jin, djinnee, etc.]

An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. Knight.

r cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]

See Lansquenet.

The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.

Of or pertaining to Linnæus, the celebrated Swedish botanist. Linnaean system (Bot.), the system in which the classes are founded mainly upon the stamens, and the orders upon the pistils; the artificial or sexual system.

A mineral of pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, occurring in isometric crystals, and also massive. It is a sulphide of cobalt containing some nickel or copper.

Flax. See Linen. [Obs.]

imson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite. Green…

A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.

Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color.

A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.

A minnow.

A fool; a simpleton. Shak.

A simpleton; a silly person. [Colloq.] Addison.

Pinnate with an equal number of leaflets on each side; having no odd leaflet at the end.

A small child; especially, a negro or mulatto infant. [U.S. & West Indies]