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A traveler's handbag. [Colloq.]

A vascular sac connected, beneath the brain, in many fishes, with the infundibulum.

A term of reproach, implying that one is fit to be hanged. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack.

Same as Cossack.

a soldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler. And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thing that on the field is found. Drayton.

Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.

stances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.

One who massacres. [R.]

A salt of mesaconic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.

Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.

To account or reckon wrongly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

composable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa.

The cavity of a nectocalyx.

An explosive nitro derivative of certain sugars, analogous to nitroglycerin, gun cotton, etc.

A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.

An old Italian or Spanish dance tune, in slow three-four measure, with divisions on a ground bass, resembling a chaconne.

The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.