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Want of harmony.

One's acts considered as fixing one's lot in the future existence. (Theos.) The doctrine of fate as the inflexible result of cause and effect; the theory of inevitable consequence.

One of a Mohammedan sect founded in the ninth century by Karmat.

See Tearpit.

See Alexipharmic.

Armed with light weapons or accouterments.

Having long arms; as, the long-armed ape or gibbon.

Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent. " Lukewarm blood." Spenser. " Lukewarm patriots." Addison. An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the name of passion. Dryden. -- Luce"warm`ly, adv. -- Luce"warm`ness, n.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

nce, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a singl…

See Marmalade. [Obs.]

A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.

A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.

Pertaining to, or like, marble.

Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. [R.]

A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. [R.]

A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.

The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. Geikie.

A species of small opossum (Didelphus murina) ranging from Mexico to Brazil.