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A garden plant (Chrysanthemum Balsamita) having a strong balsamic smell, and nearly allied to tansy. It is used as a pot herb and salad plant and in flavoring ale and beer. Called also alecost.

omatic flavor, and are used like those of anise and caraway. [Written also cummin.] Rank-smelling rue, and cumin good for eyes. Spenser. Black cumin (Bot.), a plant (Nigella sativa) with pungent seeds, used by the Afghans, etc.

y, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal. Diabetes mellitus Etym: [NL., sweet diabetes], that form of diabetes in which the urine contains saccharine matter. -- Diabetes insipidus Etym: [NL., lit., diabetes], the form of diabetes in which the urine contains no abnormal constituen…

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. Melloni.

Affording a free passage to heat; as, diathermic substances. Melloni.

An order of lamellibranchiate mollusks having an anterior and posterior adductor muscle, as the common clam. See Bivalve.

Subtile or invisible emanation; exhalation perceived by the sense of smell; especially, noisome or noxious exhalation; as, the effluvium from diseased or putrefying bodies, or from ill drainage.

The peculiar smell and taste arising from products of decomposition of animal or vegetable substances when burnt in close vessels.

d or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed. [Written also enamelled.]

who enamels; a workman or artist who applies enamels in ornamental work. [Written also enameller, enamellist.]

An epipterygoid bone or cartilage; the columella in the skulls of many lizards.

, obtained as a colorless crystalline substance, C12H4N2O8 by heating an ammonium salt of mellitic acid. By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (euchrone), -- hence its name.

Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, which, in many animals, projects beyond the connection with the stapes. -- n.

sure method of destroying weeds. Be a complete summer fallow, land is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow crop. Sinclair. Fallow crop, the crop taken from a green fallow. [Eng.] -- Green fallow, fallow whereby land is rendered mellow and clean from weeds, by cult…

Like meal; mealy; pertainiing to meal; as, a farinaceous taste, smell, or appearance.

Tenacious; retentive. [Obs.] Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

ided leaves. It is cultivated in gardens for the agreeable aromatic flavor of its seeds. Smell of sweetest fennel. Milton. A sprig of fennel was in fact the theological smelling bottle of the tender sex. S. G. Goodrich. Azorean, or Sweet, fennel, (Fæniculum dulce). It is a smaller and stouter plant than the common fenn…

A plant (trigonella Foenum Græcum) cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881).

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.