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A variety of wheat from which starch is produced; -- called also French rice.

Start modified by heat so as to become a transparent mass, like horn. It is soluble in cold water.

ogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

A small moth (Gelechia cerealella) which is very destructive to wheat and other grain. The larva eats out the inferior of the grain, leaving only the shell.

cies of actinia or sea anemone, and other Anthozoa, hydroids, starfishes, etc. -- Animal heat (Physiol.), the heat generated in the body of a living animal, by means of which the animal is kept at nearly a uniform temperature. -- Animal spirits. See under Spirit. -- Animal kingdom, the whole class of beings endowed…

To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

Antilogous pole (Eccl.), that pole of a crystal which becomes negatively electrified when heated.

antiphony, or alternate singing; sung alternately by a divided choir or opposite choirs. Wheatly. -- An*tiph"o*nal*ly, adv.

of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

Incombustible; capable of sustaining a strong heat without alteration of form or properties.

The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree. Trailing arbutus (Bot.), a creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family (Epigæa repens), having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in smal…

Heat. [R.] Sir T. Herbert.

Heat, in a literal sense; as, the ardor of the sun's rays.

an open space in a building. The Alban lake . . . looks like the area of some vast amphitheater. Addison.

The area in the central part of an amphitheater, in which the gladiators fought and other shows were exhibited; -- so called because it was covered with sand.

Matter for question; business in hand. [Obs.] Sheathed their swords for lack of argument. Shak.

Exhausted of moisture; parched with heat; dry; barren. "An arid waste." Thomson.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [Eng.] [Written also arish, ersh, etc.] The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag.