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Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.

Intolerance. Bailey.

Not enduring; not able to endure. The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. Arbuthnot.

In an intolerant manner.

Not tolerated.

Intolerant. [R.]

Intolerance; want of toleration; refusal to tolerate a difference of opinion.

Having equal, or almost equal, authority with the apostles of their teachings.

One of a series of series of complex nitrogenous substances, represented by methyl ketol and related to indol. Methyl ketol, a weak organic base, obtained as a white crystalline substance having the odor of fæces.

A minute and tedious discourse on trifling things.

The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.

One who is skilled in mantology; a diviner. [R.]

The act or art of divination. [R.]

The natural history of Mammalia.

A whitish soluble powder used as a developer in photography. Chemically, it is the sulphate of methyl-p-amino-m-cresol.

One versed in numismatology.

The science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics.

Having eight cells for seeds.

An extinct order of ostrichlike aquatic birds having teeth, which are set in a groove in the jaw. It includes Hesperornis, and allied genera. See Hesperornis. [Written also Odontholcae, and Odontoholcae.]

A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.