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See Conine.

A vegetable alkaloid found with conine in the poison hemlock (Conium maculatum). It is a white crystalline substance, C8H17NO, easily convertible into conine.

Same as Conine.

See Conine.

An oily substance, C8H14, obtained from several derivatives of conine.

A blue, fluorescent, oily base (regarded as a derivative of pyridine), obtained from conine.

ee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine months old. Shak.

ction of acids, and occurring naturally in muscle tissue and in urine. [Written also kretinine.]

e of firmness and freshness; in a fresh, unwilted condition. It [laurel] has been plucked nine months, and yet looks as hale and crisp as if it would last ninety years. Leigh Hunt.

k, or shall beget, Is propagated curse. Milton. The curse of Scotland (Card Playing), the nine of diamonds. -- Not worth a curse. See under Cress.

One of the canine teeth; -- so called from having but one point or cusp on the crown. See Tooth.

aze Insufferably bright. Milton. An unreflected light did never yet Dazzle the vision feminine. Sir H. Taylor.

Pertaining to the number nineteen; of nineteen years. [R.] Holder.

A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine to thirteen pounds.

A feminine deserter. Milton.

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or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.

Linnæan class of plants including all that have any number of stamens between twelve and nineteen.

Of or pertaining to the Dodecandria; having twelve stamens, or from twelve to nineteen.

See Canine tooth, under Canine.