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A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout. [Cant]

See Gypsum. [Obs.] Pococke.

Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

A gypsy. See Gypsy.

Containing gypsum.

Gypseous. [R.] Chambers.

The act or art of engraving on gypsum.

A cast taken in plaster of Paris, or in white lime.

A mineral consisting of the hydrous sulphate of lime (calcium). When calcined, it forms plaster of Paris. Selenite is a transparent, crystalline variety; alabaster, a fine, white, massive variety.

heft, fortune telling, horsejockeying, tinkering, etc. Cf. Bohemian, Romany. Like a right gypsy, hath, at fast and loose, Beguiled me to the very heart of loss. Shak.

rpillars have done great damage to fruit, shade, and forest trees of many kinds. The male gypsy moth is yellowish brown, the female white, and larger than the male. In both sexes the wings are marked by dark lines and a dark lunule. The caterpillars, when full- grown, have a grayish mottled appearance, with blue tuberc…

The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.

A labiate plant (the Lycopus Europæus). Gypsies are said to stain their skin with its juice.

Pertaining to Egypt, in Africa. Egyptian bean. (Bot.) (a) The beanlike fruit of an aquatic plant (Nelumbium speciosum), somewhat resembling the water lily. (b) See under Bean,

To give an Egyptian character or appearance to. Fairbairn.

One skilled in the antiquities of Egypt; a student of Egyptology.

Of, pertaining to, or devoted to, Egyptology.

The science or study of Egyptian antiquities, esp. the hieroglyphics.

a, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the ä sound, the Phoenician alphabet having n…

s supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.