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A substance, in the form of reddish brown, microscopic, prismatic crystals, formed from dried blood by the action of strong acetic acid and common salt; -- called also Teichmann's crystals. Chemically, it is a hydrochloride of hematin.

A measure of half a sextary. Arbuthnot.

Given to forming schemes; artful; intriguing. -- Schem"ing*ly, adv.

To celebrate with anthems. [Poet.] Sweet birds antheming the morn. Keats.

Given to contrivance or forethought; forecasting; scheming; as, a cool calculating disposition. Calculating machine, a machine for the mechanical performance of mathematical operations, for the most part invented by Charles Babbage and G. and E. Scheutz. It computes logarithmic and other mathematical tables of a high d…

. They . . . spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Acts xiii. 45.

Full of design; scheming. [R.] -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. [R.] Barrow.

Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.

Contrivance; the act of devising or scheming. [Obs.] John the bastard Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies. Shak. Balloon frame, Cant frames, etc. See under Balloon, Cant, etc. -- Frame building or house, a building of which the form and support is made of framed timbers. [U.S.] -- Frame level, a mason's level.…

Same as Hemin.

The act of scheming or planning; also, that which is planned; contrivance; design; plan. Davenant.