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se. -- Gum passages, sap receptacles extending through the parenchyma of certain plants (Amygdalaceæ, Cactaceæ, etc.), and affording passage for gum. -- Gum pot, a varnish maker's utensil for melting gum and mixing other ingredients. -- Gum resin, the milky juice of a plant solidified by exposure to air; one of cert…

lization; -- said of hermaphrodite flowers in which some structural obstacle forbids autogamy.

Characterized by heterogamy.

A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime.

Pertaining to, or involving, homodynamy; as, successive or homodynamous parts in plants and animals.

Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy.

Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made…

reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser.

The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.

A dreamy, idle fellow. Shak.

Any one of several species of cuckoos of the genus Eudynamys, found in India, the East Indies, and Australia. They deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds.

A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.

Consisting of, or resembling, lard. Lardaceous degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration.

population; to lessen speed, rank, fortune. Charity . . . shall lessen his punishment. Calamy. St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it. Atterbury.

f levity and libertinism." Atterbury. He never employed his omnipotence out of levity. Calamy.

rees, especially of species of Rhodorhiza from the Canary Islands, and of the West Indian Amyris balsamifera.

A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

Amygdaloid.

ernation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; - - in distinction from heterogamy.

To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.