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A ferruginous variety of rutile.

Resembling in form or structure a foraminiferous shell of the genus Nodosaria. -- n. (Zoöl.)

The quality or state of being obligatory.

A pungent oily substance obtained by redistilling bone oil. [Obs.]

One of several alkaloids found in the leaves of the oleander.

A liquid oil made from animal fats (esp. beef fat) by separating the greater portion of the solid fat or stearin, by crystallization. It is mainly a mixture of olein and palmitin with some little stearin.

A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.

See Betaine.

The state or quality of being paltry.

Of, pertaining to, or living in, a marsh or swamp; marshy.

Like a panther, esp. in color; as, the pantherine snake (Ptyas mucosus) of Brazil.

An alkaloid found in opium. It has a weaker therapeutic action than morphine.

Imitation parchment, made by soaking unsized paper in dilute sulphuric acid.

Of or pertaining to the Passeres. The columbine, gallinaceous, and passerine tribes people the fruit trees. Sydney Smith.

An epidemic disease of the silkworm, characterized by the presence of minute vibratory corpuscles in the blood.

See Peregrine. [Obs.]

A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in front than behind.

A volcanic rock, formed by the cementing together of sand, scoria, cinders, etc.

Foreign; not native; extrinsic or from without; exotic. [Spelt also pelegrine.] "Peregrine and preternatural heat." Bacon. Peregrine falcon (Zoöl.), a courageous and swift falcon (Falco peregrinus), remarkable for its wide distribution over all the continents. The adult plumage is dark bluish ash on the back, nearly bl…

The quality of being peremptory; positiveness.