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made by boiling solutions to the point of crystallization, usually molded; as, cherry fondant.

ommand or edict against a thing. [Obs.] ow hast thou yield to transgress The strict forbiddance. Milton.

Turning the head towards the spectator, but not the body; -- said of a lion or other beast.

A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Mes…

Same as Gardant.

e or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading. His studies were without guidance and without plan. Macaulay.

A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.

A worn-out strumpet; a vixenish woman; a hag. Such a weak, watery, wicked old harridan, substituted for the pretty creature I had been used to see. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric.

A derivative of urea, C3H4N2O2, obtained from allantion, as a white, crystalline substance, with a sweetish taste; -- called also glycolyl urea.

Of or pertaining to the Ichneumonidæ, or ichneumon flies. -- n.

The apparent resistance in an electric circuit to the flow of an alternating current, analogous to the actual electrical resistance to a direct current, being the ratio of electromotive force to the current. It is equal to R2 + X2, where R = ohmic resistance, X = reactance. For an inductive circuit, X = 2pfL, where f =…

Not accordant; discordant.

Lying or situated beneath the world.

The office or employment of an intendant.

e charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.

Being, between worlds or orbs. [R.] "Intermundane spaces." Locke.

Being within the material world; -- opposed to extramundane.

Overflowing. [R.] Shenstone.

One of the Iulidæ, a family of myriapods, of which the genus Iulus is the type. See Iulus.