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A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

ngent aromatic rhizome or tuber of certain East Indian or Chinese species of Alpinia (A. Galanga and A. officinarum) and of the Kæmpferia Galanga), -- all of the Ginger family.

A dish of veal, chickens, or other white meat, freed from bones, tied up, boiled, and served cold. Smart.

The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.

A kind of striped cotton fabric, usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on white.

Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants. -- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant of the Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. Nichol.

A group of fossil amphibians allied to the labyrinthodonts, having the head defended by bony, sculptured plates, as in some ganoid fishes.

A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post- morten change.

See Teosinte.

The higher orders of Mammalia, in which the cerebrum is convoluted. -- Gyr"en*ceph"a*lous, a.

The general term for the Hebrew oral or traditional law; one of two branches of exposition in the Midrash. See Midrash.

An appearance as of a halo of light, surround the edges of dark object

Capable of being healed.

A common herb of the Mint family (Brunela vulgaris), destitute of active properties, but anciently thought a panacea.

Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.

Unpalatable. [R.]

Not admitting of appeal; not appealable. Coleridge.

Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.

Not congealable; incapable of being congealed. -- In`con*geal"a*ble*ness, n.