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ey have long, slender limbs and large eyes, and are arboreal in their habits. The slender loris (S. gracilis), of Ceylon, in one of the best known species. [Written also lori.]

Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors. W. Irving.

An apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion.

oring is of prime importance. Titian, Paul Veronese, Van Dyck, and the rest of the good colorists. Dryden.

A cultivator of, or dealer in, flowers.

One who paints in water colors.

A South African mole of the genus Chrysochloris; the golden mole, the fur of which reflects brilliant metallic hues of green and gold.

One skilled in the cultivation of flowers; a florist.

A California scorpænoid fish (Sebastichthys rhodochloris), having brilliant colors.

A European finch (Ligurinus chloris); -- called also green bird, green linnet, green grosbeak, green olf, greeny, and peasweep.

y one of several species of beautiful birds of Australia and New Guinea, of the genera Ptiloris and Craspidophora, allied to the paradise birds.

the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceeding a fever. Rigor caloris ( Etym: [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50ºC. -- Rigor mortis ( Etym: [L. , rigor of death] , death stiffening; the rigidity of the m…

The grass Chloris elegans.