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Not to will; to refuse; to reject. [Obs.] Certes, said he, I nill thine offered grace. Spenser.

d, for the trimimg of ladies' dresses, for embroidery and fringes, and for the weft of chenille rugs.

A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.

Small grains or dust of cochineal or the coccus insect.

Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city. Manila cheroot or cigar, a cheroot or cigar made of tobacco grown in the Philippine Islands. -- Manila hemp, a fibrous material obtained from the Musa textilis, a plant allied to the banana, growing in t…

A ring worn upon the arm or leg as an ornament, especially among the tribes of Africa.

See 1st Manilla, 1.

dish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.

According to the French and American notation, a thousand octillions, or a unit with thirty ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a million octillions, or a unit with fifty-four ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.

A white crystalline nitrogenous substance, obtained indirectly by the action of cyanogen on aniline, and regarded as an anilide of oxamic acid; -- called also phenyl oxamide.

The tarpum. [Local, U.S.]

The long podlike capsules of Vanilla planifolia, and V. claviculata, remarkable for their delicate and agreeable odor, for the volatile, odoriferous oil extracted from them; also, the flavoring extract made from the capsules, extensively used in confectionery, perfumery, etc.

A salt of vanillic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

A white crystalline aldehyde having a burning taste and characteristic odor of vanilla. It is extracted from vanilla pods, and is also obtained by the decomposition of coniferin, and by the oxidation of eugenol.

An inferior kind of vanilla, the pods of Vanilla Pompona.

The hypothetical radical characteristic of vanillic alcohol.

See Will I, nill I, etc., under 3d Will.

[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (175…

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).