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The quality or characteristics of a gem or jewel. [Obs.] Bailey.

Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.

Gumminess; a viscous or adhesive quality or nature. [R.] Floyer.

An instrument devised by Hermann, for regulating and measuring the thickness of a layer of blood for spectroscopic examination.

Same Hemostatic.

Having the end hooked or curved.

A governor or prefect appointed by the Spartans in the cities subjugated by them.

With the head foremost.

Most advanced; most forward; as, the headmost ship in a fleet.

An albuminous substance formed in gastric digestion, and by the action of boiling dilute acids on albumin. It is readily convertible into hemipeptone. Called also hemialbumin.

Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.

Highest. [Obs.] Shak.

Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2.

Nearest on this side. Sir M. Hale.

A name given to a vase having a rounded body; esp.:

Having only one form of pistils; -- said of the flowers of some plants. Darwin.

Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from the same embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula or plant enbryo) differentiates.

A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent.

Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost. And pierce the inmost center of the earth. Shak. The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my inmost vitals prey. Addison.

Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost; deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.