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Any. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The precious stone called onyx. [R.]

A whitlow.

Divination by the nails.

Malacopoda.

Chalcedony in parallel layers of different shades of color. It is used for making cameos, the figure being cut in one layer with the next as a ground. Onyx marble, a banded variety of marble or calcium carbonate resembling onyx. It is obtained from Mexico.

bodies which corrodes or destroys others; also, a harsh or biting sharpness; as, the acrimony of the juices of certain plants. [Archaic] Bacon.

Rising at sunset and setting at sunrise, as a star; -- opposed to cosmical.

In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.

Acronycal.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

The use of a picture symbol of an object to represent phonetically the initial sound of the name of the object.

Same as Egophony.

grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

Maintenance; means of living.

The name of another person assumed by the author of a work.

Published under the name of some one other than the author.

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Sexual propagation. [R.]