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A highly refined sugar in impalpable powder, esp. suited to confectioners' uses.

is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound.

rtionment among a number; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms. Milman.

cy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

The alphabet; -- called also Christcross-row. And from the crossrow plucks the letter G. Shak.

ory; inculpating. Adjectives . . . commonly used by Latian authors in a culpatory sense. Walpole.

wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

alled liberal arts and sciences); circle of human knowledge. Hence, a work containing, in alphabetical order, information in all departments of knowledge, or on a particular department or branch; as, a cyclopedia of the physical sciences, or of mechanics. See Encyclopedia.

The fourth letter of the English alphabet, and a vocal consonent. The English letter is from Latin, which is from Greek, which took it from Phoenician, the probable ultimate origin being Egyptian. It is related most nearly to t and th; as, Eng. deep, G. tief; Eng. daughter, G. tochter, Gr. duhitr. See Guide to Pronunci…

ine, bitter substance, regarded as a glucoside, and extracted from Daphne mezereum and D. alpina.

, efficacy, or value; degeneration; deterioration. The development and degradation of the alphabetic forms can be traced. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

g by words; to set forth; to describe. Customs or habits delineated with great accuracy. Walpole.

Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demotic alphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six or seven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other such writings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called also epistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Encho…

The division of Tunicata which includes the Salpæ. See Salpa.

sed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

rocess long-continued detrition have reached a step of extreme simplicity. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictiona…

a fault; to exculpate. I almost fear you think I begged it, but I can disculpate myself. Walpole.

tched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. Walpole.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.