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A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil.

A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

n of the Democratic party in New York, about the middle of the 19th century, which was hostile to extension of slavery, public debts, corporate privileges, etc., and supported Van Buren against Cass for president in 1848; --opposed to Hunker. [Political Cant, U. S.]

A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged. Knight.

timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile. [Amer.] J. Pickering.

Rich; fertile. [Obs.] "Batful valleys." Drayton.

To make fertile. [Obs.] "To battel barren land." Ray.

Fertile. See Battel, a. [Obs.]

The lower surface of a brick, slate, or tile. Knight.

In a belligerent manner; hostilely.

A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum. Benz…

A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

merly regarded as an unfailing antidote for poison, and a certain remedy for eruptive, pestilential, or putrid diseases. Hence: Any antidote or panacea.

Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

er; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

halt, the semisolid maltha and mineral tars, the oily petroleums, and even the light, volatile naphthas.

. Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, a considerable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with a yellow smoky flame. -- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color, emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is so charged with bitumen that it may be cut li…

A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

be, as of cane or reed, sometimes twelve feet long, through which an arrow or other projectile may be impelled by the force of the breath. It is a weapon much used by certain Indians of America and the West Indies; -- called also blowpipe, and blowtube. See Sumpitan.