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Same as Tréflé.

Native iron protosulphide, FeS. It is known only in meteoric irons, and is usually in imbedded nodular masses of a bronze color.

A large, handsome American butterfly (Euphoeades, or Papilio, troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings.

A large American butterfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.

tation by tumult; disturbance; worrying confusion. And there I'll rest, as after much turmoil, A blessed soul doth in Elysium. Shak.

To unwind or open, as a coil of rope. Derham.

The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.

To remove the oil from. Dryden.

To coil up; to make into a coil, or to be made into a coil.

The water violet (Hottonia palustris); also, the less showy American plant H. inflata.

Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.

The buck bean.

Having the characteristic of Zoilus, a bitter, envious, unjust critic, who lived about 270 years before Christ.

Resemblance to Zoilus in style or manner; carping criticism; detraction. Bring candid eyes the perusal of men's works, and let not Zoilism or detraction blast well-intended labors. Sir T. Browne.

A volatile oil distilled from the resin or balsam of the nut pine (Pinus sabiniana) of California.

without taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

Beyond the bounds of a country; in foreign countries; as, we have broils at home and enemies abroad. "Another prince . . . was living abroad." Macaulay.

ood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter plant, used as a tonic and for making the oil of wormwood.

), a ground prepared for a picture, chiefly with distemper, or water colors, by which the oil is absorbed, and a brilliancy is imparted to the colors.

reech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.