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Without crystallization in the ultimate texture of a solid substance; uncrystallized.

A genus of harmless lizards, serpentlike in form, without legs, and with both ends so much alike that they appear to have a head at each, and ability to move either way. See Illustration in Appendix.

Like or pertaining to the lizards of the genus Amphisbæna.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from, the anemone, or from anemonin.

An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from some species of anemone.

give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

The state of being arborescent; the resemblance to a tree in minerals, or crystallizations, or groups of crystals in that form; as, the arborescence produced by precipitating silver.

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

hen he arrived at manhood. Rogers. We arrive at knowledge of a law of nature by the generalization of facts. McCosh. If at great things thou wouldst arrive. Milton.

A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

tion; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.

A poisonous, white, crystallizable alkaloid, extracted from the Atropa belladonna, or deadly nightshade, and the Datura Stramonium, or thorn apple. It is remarkable for its power in dilating the pupil of the eye. Called also daturine.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

The state or manner of a barbarian; lack of civilization.

A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the family Iguanidæ.