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iolet (Chem.), an artificial dye, consisting of certain methyl halogen derivatives of rosaniline.

also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.

Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.

Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.

species), the Abyssinian (M. Ensete), the Philippine Island (M. textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.

An ice or ice cream prepared in layers, as vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate ice cream, and orange or lemon water ice.

Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

. It is used in perfumery, and is manufactured in large quantities in the preparation of aniline. Fornerly called also nitrobenzol.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitro derivative of salicylic acid, called also anilic acid.

A genus of algæ. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.

h of long hair on the throat. The general color is grayish brown. [Written also neelghau, nilgau, and nylghaie.]

sia usneoides. See Tillandsia. -- Old man's head (Bot.), a columnar cactus (Pilocereus senilis), native of Mexico, covered towards the top with long white hairs. -- Old red sandstone (Geol.), a series of red sandstone rocks situated below the rocks of the Carboniferous age and comprising various strata of siliceous s…

Like an old woman; anile. -- Old`-wom"an*ish*ness, n.

to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

ightly pungent odor, C9H6N.CH3, first obtained as a condensation product of aldehyde and aniline, and regarded as a derivative of quinoline; -- called also methyl quinoline. [Written also chinaldine.]

Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous bases obtained by the union of certain aniline derivatives with glyoxal or with certain ketones. [Written also chinoxaline.]

[Egypt] was recent, and formed out of the mud discharged into the neighboring sea by the Nile. Woodward.

A small North American dace (Minnilus cornutus, or Notropis megalops). The male, in the breeding season, has bright red fins. Called also red dace, and shiner. Applied also to Notropis ardens, of the Mississippi valley.

d by a state or city government, for the confinement, instruction, and reformation of juvenile offenders, and of young persons of idle, vicious, and vagrant habits. [U. S.]

An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.