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oholic solution of benzoin, styrax, tolu balsam, and aloes; compound tincture of benzoin. Brande & C. -- Friar's cap (Bot.), the monkshood. -- Friar's cowl (Bot.), an arumlike plant (Arisarum vulgare) with a spathe or involucral leaf resembling a cowl. -- Friar's lantern, the ignis fatuus or Will-o'-the-wisp. Milton…

A tax, especially on salt. [France] Brande & C.

A mixture composed of unfermented grape juice, brandy, sugar, etc., for adulteration of wines. [Written also jerupigia.]

es, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

Humped; protuberant; -- said of a surface which presents one or more large elevations. Brande & C.

rdial, a liquor made from ginger, raisins, lemon rind, and water, and sometimes whisky or brandy. -- Ginger pop. See Ginger beer (above). -- Ginger wine, wine impregnated with ginger. -- Wild ginger (Bot.), an American herb (Asarum Canadense) with two reniform leaves and a long, cordlike rootstock which has a strong…

use thrown back into the excavation after removing the coal. It is called also gob stuff. Brande & C.

A kind of divination performed by drawing a ring or circle, and walking in or around it. Brande & C.

y which it is held and used; -- said chiefly of a knife, sword, or dagger; the hilt. This brandish'dagger I'll bury to the haft in her fair breast. Dryden.

The lives of the saints. Brande & C.

tained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.-- Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received…

One of a mystical sect of the Greek Church in the fourteenth century; a quietist. Brande & C.

ing the primitive type of the oldest form of the Arabic, still spoken in Southern Arabia. Brande & C.

A light horseman. See 2d Hobbler. [Obs.] Brande & C.

An islet in a river. J. Brand.

An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather. Brande & C.

To move with violence or impetuosity; to whirl; to brandish. [Obs.] His harmful club he gan to hurtle high. Spenser.

n from sensible objects, and used to illustrate a subject; usually, an extended metaphor. Brande & C.

Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.

ws of their own. Sir M. Hale. They interlard their native drinks with choice Of strongest brandy. J. Philips.