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A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed the nucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. [written also janissary.]

ing jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber. Jet ant (Zoöl.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

A Turkish judge. See Cadi.

See Kish.

Any large blackish seaweed.

t fishes of the genus Fundulus and allied genera. They live equally well in fresh and brackish water, or even in the sea. They are usually striped or barred with black. Called also minnow, and brook fish. See Minnow.

An earth of a blackish or deep blue color. Woodward.

al tyrant flycatcher, taking various insects upon the wing. It is dark ash above, and blackish on the bead and tail. The quills and wing coverts are whitish at the edges. It is white beneath, with a white terminal band on the tail. The feathers on the head of the adults show a bright orange basal spot when erected. Cal…

A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

Having a knack; cunning; crafty; trickish. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.

Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians." Macaulay.

A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, and lead.

A native or inhabitant of a mountainous region of Western Asia belonging to the Turkish and Persian monarchies. [Written also Koord.]

(Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched. [Written also kussir.]

A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called from the place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.

uth, style, etc. No discreet man will believe Augustine's miracles, in the latitude of monkish relations. Fuller.

A borate of iron and magnesia, occurring in fibrous masses of a blackish green color.

Stupid; blockish. [Obs.]

An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.