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A crystalline rock consisting of quarts and mica, common in the tin regions of Cornwall and Saxony.

See Greet, to weep.

To make ready; -- often used reflexively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A poisonous glucoside accompanying helleborin in several species of hellebore, and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a bittersweet taste. It has a strong action on the heart, resembling digitalin.

In this. Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit. John xv. 8.

In the following part of this (writing, document, speech, and the like).

In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).

Into this. Hooker.

A free-swimming, dimorphic, sexual form of certain species of Nereis.

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality. Berkeley.

An interregnum. [Obs.] Bacon.

A narrow strip of land. [Obs.]

A Marsh. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Milreis.

A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

itrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]

Any species of Nereis. The word is sometimes used for similar annelids of other families.

Any annelid resembling Nereis, or of the family Lycoridæ or allied families.

A Nereid. See Nereid.

Fossil tracks of annelids.