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Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.

Unhealthfulness; unwholesomeness; as, the insalubrity of air, water, or climate. Boyle.

n island; of the nature, or possessing the characteristics, of an island; as, an insular climate, fauna, etc.

The act or process of intensifying; intensification; climax. [R.] Carlyle.

To render (wood) proof against decay by saturating with a solution of corrosive sublimate in open tanks, or under pressure.

gs, resembles the leaves of plants upon which it rests; esp., butterflies of the genus Kallima, found in Southern Asia and the East Indies. -- Leaf crumpler (Zoöl.), a small moth (Phycis indigenella), the larva of which feeds upon leaves of the apple tree, and forms its nest by crumpling and fastening leaves together…

Of or pertaining to Lima, or to the inhabitants of Lima, in Peru. -- n.

The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.

See Limaille. [Obs.] Chaucer.

into which this element enters in its lowest proportion. Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. See Corrosive.

To pass periodically from one region or climate to another for feeding or breeding; -- said of certain birds, fishes, and quadrupeds.

Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.

To adapt; to accustom; to habituate; to acclimate; to cause to grow as under natural conditions. Its wearer suggested that pears and peaches might yet be naturalized in the New England climate. Hawthorne.

A genus of marine gastropods, mostly natives of warm climates.

pernicious; injurious; destructive; unwholesome; insalubrious; as, noxious air, food, or climate; pernicious; corrupting to morals; as, noxious practices or examples. Too frequent an appearance in places of public resort is noxious to spiritual promotions. Swift.

, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

locking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; -- used of the weather or the climate; as, an open season; an open winter. Bacon.

ge. See under Middle, Northeast, etc. -- Of passage, passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds "Birds of passage." Longfellow. -- Passage hawk, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. -- Passage money, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for car…

r fruit, of a rosaceous tree (Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight.

A genus of leguminous plants, including the Lima bean, the kidney bean, the scarlet runner, etc. See Bean.