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A combination of acetic acid with glycerin. Brande & C.

Same as Acetimeter. Brande & C.

Needle ore. Brande & C.

Wonderful; also, admirable. [Obs.] "Admired disorder." " Admired Miranda." Shak.

Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.

Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap.

Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C.

On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground. Totten.

A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.

Having an affected manner; being in the habit of putting on airs; affectedly grand. [Colloq.]

composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

vative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

ating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

h a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C.

ents (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.