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2 grains of gold and 2.58 grains of alloy, that is, having a total weight of 25.8 grains, nine-tenths fine. It is no longer coined.

To smoke, as tobacco. [Obs.] And some men now live ninety years and past, Who never drank to tobacco first nor last. Taylor (1630. ) To drink down, to act on by drinking; to reduce or subdue; as, to drink down unkindness. Shak. -- To drink in, to take into one's self by drinking, or as by drinking; to receive and appr…

to shrink; to waste or consume away; to become degenerate; to fall away. Weary sennights nine times nine Shall he dwindle, peak and pine. Shak. Religious societies, though begun with excellent intentions, are said to have dwindled into factious clubs. Swift.

rtals! ever blind to fate, Too soon dejected, and dejected, and too soon elate. Pope. Our nineteenth century is wonderfully set up in its own esteem, wonderfully elate at its progress. Mrs. H. H. Jackson.

The number nine or a group of nine. The Enneads, the title given to the works of the philosopher Plotinus, published by his pupil Porphyry; -- so called because each of the six books into which it is divided contains nine chapters.

A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.

Belonging to an enneagon; having nine angles.

Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

Having nine sides.

A figure having nine sides; a nonagon.

A Linnæan class of plants having nine stamens.

Having nine stamens.

Having nine petals, or flower leaves.

Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits.

Occurring once in every nine times, days, years, etc.; every ninth. Enneatical day, every ninth day of a disease. -- Enneatical year, every ninth year of a man's life.

story between two higher ones, usually between the ground floor and the first story; mezzanine. Parker.

ed, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites.

A suffix used to form feminine nouns; as, actress, deaconess, songstress.

ght bower, the lowest card used being the seven, or frequently, in two-handed euchre, the nine spot. See Bower.

any substance so extracted, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained; as, quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.