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A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

ire, adopted after the taking of Constantinople. The cross of our faith is replanted, The pale, dying crescent is daunted. Campbell.

A crusader. [Obs.] The conquesta of the croises extending over Palestine. Burke.

anically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (C. moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [U. S.]

Same as Cross-spale.

ated families belonging to the group Rugosa; -- also called cup corals. Thay are found in paleozoic rocks.

Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.

An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

A large, spine-tailed lizard (Uromastix spinipes), found in Egypt, Arabia, and Palestine; -- called also dhobb, and dhabb.

A small herbivorous mammal of the genus Hyrax. The species found in Palestine and Syria is Hyrax Syriacus; that of Northern Africa is H. Brucei; -- called also ashkoko, dassy, and rock rabbit. See Cony, and Hyrax.

Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike. The lips put on a deadish paleness. A. Stafford.

In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death. "Deadly pale." Shak.

skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8.

Deadly; as, deathly pale or sick.

r, and the cause of religion was debated with the same ardor in Spain as on the plains of Palestine. Prescott.

swallowing food; the power of swallowing. The muscles employed in the act of deglutition. Paley.

Formation of teeth; toothed form. [R.] How did it [a bill] get its barb, its dentation Paley.

That which is lost or destroyed. [R.] Paley.