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Morbid dread of disease.

See Hemoglobin.

Intense fear or dread of the pope, or of the Roman Catholic Church. [R.]

Requiring light to live; incapable of living without light; as, photobiotic plant cells.

A dread or intolerance of light. Sir T. Watson.

A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations. Bouvier.

reatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile. Bacon.

Tried virtue or integrity; approved moral excellence; honesty; rectitude; uprightness. "Probity of mind." Pope.

mall European singing bird (Erythacus rubecula), having a reddish breast; -- called also robin redbreast, robinet, and ruddock.

A celebrated fairy; Puck. See Puck. Shak.

The European robin.

The act of putting on a robe. Robing room, a room where official robes are put on, as by judges, etc.

A genus of leguminous trees including the common locust of North America (Robinia Pseudocacia).

One who dreads Russia or Russian influence. [Words sometimes found in the newspapers.]

Morbid dread of Russia or of Russian influence.

Having the form of, or resembling, sawdust or raspings.

One of the smooth areas surrounding the tubercles of a sea urchin.

Pertaining to, or surrounding, scrobiculæ; as, scrobicular tubercles.

Having numerous small, shallow depressions or hollows; pitted.

See under Robin, and Illustration in Appendix.