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in Mexico, Central America, etc., and found on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.

nd Southern Anerica, of the Cactus familly, extensively cultivated for the sake of the cochineal insect, which lives on it.

The active medicinal principle of colocynth; a bitter, yellow, crystalline substance, regarded as a glucoside.

See Quinidine.

The operation of putting down or displacing the opaque lens in cataract.

Healing the distemper of cows.

The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10.

A sphinx with the head of a ram.

In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

That crushes; overwhelming. "The blow must be quick and crushing." Macualay.

Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.

Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.] A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.

The title of the eldest son of the king of France, and heir to the crown. Since the revolution of 1830, the title has been discontinued.

The title of the wife of the dauphin.

A fatty substance contained in the oil of the dolphin and the porpoise; -- called also phocenin.

Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics, an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of Louis XIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).

Pertaining to the dolphin, a genus of fishes.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic. Delphinic acid. (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under Valeric. [Obs.]

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from the stavesacre (Delphinium staphisagria), as a colorless amorphous powder.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the dolphin.