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A procuress. J. Webster.

cuum tube, or which is mounted within the tube and exposed to radiation from the cathode. Lenard rays are similar in all their known properties to cathode rays. So called from the German physicist Philipp Lenard (b. 1862), who first described them.

A tube for producing Lenard rays.

Solely; only. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

See Cantabile.

ish gray color and metallic luster, and is cubic in crystallization and cleavage. False galena. See Blende.

See St. Elmo's fire, under Saint.

A general name for a group of Algonquin tribes which formerly occupied the coast region of North America from Connecticut to Virginia. They included the Mohicans, Delawares, Shawnees, and several other tribes.

See Mel.

A salt of mesitylenic acid.

Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

The doctrine of Millenarians.

The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a Millenarian."During that millenary." Hare.

Full; complete; as, a plenal view or act. [Obs.]

In a plenary manner.

Quality or state of being plenary.

The state of a benefice when occupied. Blackstone.

Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority. A treatise on a subject should be plenary or full. I. Watts. Plenary indulgence (R. C. Ch.), an entire remission of temporal punishment due to, or canonical penance for, all sins. -- Plenary inspiration. (Theol.) See under Inspiration.…

Consisting of meal or pollen.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).