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See Sunfish, 1.

Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth. Bacon.

Same as 2d Molar.

A soft Tertiary sandstone; -- applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.

The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

An instrument resembling the astrolabe, formerly used for measuring the angles between heavenly bodies; -- called also pantacosm.

Worship paid to the world. Cudworth.

fice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them [the deities] the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle.

The act of immolating, or the state of being immolated, or sacrificed. Sir. T. Browne.

One who offers in sacrifice; specifically, one of a sect of Russian fanatics who practice self-mutilatio and sacrifice.

An olive stuffed with a kind of sweet red pepper, or pimiento.

See Premolar.

Situated in front of the molar teeth. --n.

A kind of piquant sauce or salad dressing resembling mayonnaise.

An ointment used in farriery.

Same as Tremando.

lands for all ardent spirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice, molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.

trogenous base, C5H11NO2, produced artificially, and also occurring naturally in beetroot molasses and its residues, from which it is extracted as a white crystalline substance; -- called also lycine and oxyneurine. It has a sweetish taste.

One of the two double-pointed teeth which intervene between the canines (cuspids) and the molars, on each side of each jaw. See Tooth, n.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd.