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yourselves treasures in heaven . . . for where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Matt. vi. 20.

Angry; malignant. [Obs.] Bp. Morton.

Same as Calcimine.

Having a taste compounded of saltness and acidity; both salt and acid. [R.]

See Sal soda, under Sal.

A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort.

of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and its…

ities, being at Amsterdam about 41 wine gallons, at Antwerp 36½, at Hamburg 38¼. [Written also Aum and Awm.]

The Manila-hemp plant (Musa textilis); also, its fiber. See Manila hemp under Manila.

ten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds of which are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

y of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic building or buildings.

The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In man, often restricted to the part between the diaphragm and the commencement of the pelvis, the remainder being called the pelvi…

nglike opening on each side of the abdomen, external and superior to the pubes; -- called also inguinal ring.

ees, properly called Fir, as the balsam fir and the silver fir. The spruces are sometimes also referred to this genus.

Of or pertaining to the fir tree or its products; as, abietic acid, called also sylvic acid. Watts.

nesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogenesis. Huxley, 1870.

To reject by judicial sentence; also, to abjudge. [Obs.] Ash.

se correspondence, in quality, manner, degree, etc.; as, about as cold; about as high; -- also of quantity, number, time. "There fell . . . about three thousand men." Exod. xxii. 28.