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A collection of specimens of plants, dried and preserved, and arranged systematically; an herbarium.

Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural. Those who do not fly to some hyperphysical hypothesis. Sir W. Hamilton.

Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.

The act or process of drying in.

enuine; real; essential; inherent; not merely apparent or accidental; -- opposed to extrinsic; as, the intrinsic value of gold or silver; the intrinsic merit of an action; the intrinsic worth or goodness of a person. He was better qualified than they to estimate justly the intrinsic value of Grecian philosophy and refi…

Intrinsic.

The quality of

Internally; A lie is a thing absolutely and intrinsically evil. South.

The quality of being intrinsical; intrinsicality.

Intricate. [Obs.] Shak.

Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.

A icicle. [Obs.]

The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

Of the age of the Lias; pertaining to the Lias Formation. -- n.

Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden.

The state of being love-sick.

Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.

Manganic. [Obs.]

Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.