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aise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up. [R.] What engines, what instruments are used in craning up a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens. Bates. An upstart craned up to the height he has. Massinger.

The geranium; -- so named from the long axis of the fruit, which resembles the beak of a crane. Dr. Prior.

Imperfectly crystallized; as, granite is only crystalline, while quartz crystal is perfectlly crystallized.

ment; seclusion. The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency. Sir W. Scott.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.

Having the cranium, or skull, long to its breadth; long-headed; -- opposed to brachycephalic. -- Dol`i*cho*ceph"al, a. & n.

A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf.

s of any mixture; a constituent part; as, quartz, feldspar, and mica are the elements of granite. The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. Jowett (Thucyd.).

Applied to the veins which pass out of the cranium through apertures in its walls.

The contents of the cranium; the brain.

Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

at.), a bone of complicated structure through which the olfactory nerves pass out of the cranium and over which they are largely distributed.

ral with a metallic luster, found in Norway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, with some other metals.

s extension. Sir W. Hamilton. The extension of [the term] plant is greater than that of geranium, because it includes more objects. Abp. Thomson.

ther, wound with a ribbon, and hanging or depending in a natural curve. See Illust. of Bucranium.

A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.

es, arrows, spears, knives, wedges, etc., which were commonly made of flint, but also of granite, jade, jasper, and other hard stones. -- Flint mill. (a) (Pottery) A mill in which flints are ground. (b) (Mining) An obsolete appliance for lighting the miner at his work, in which flints on a revolving wheel were made to…

acid properties, and its salts of the alkalies are known to the trade under the name of uranin.

A European fish (Raniceps raninus), having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard.

An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.