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A kind of ketch very common in the Levant, which has neither topgallant sail nor mizzen topsail.

Being before the time of Moses.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

terns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

In the manner of a mosaic.

Of or pertaining to, or resembling, paradise; paradisiacal. "Paradisaical pleasures." Gray.

Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees. "The Pharisaic sect among the Jews." Cudworth.

Relating to the time before Moses; as, premosaic history.

ose; resembling prose; in the form of prose; unpoetical; writing or using prose; as, a prosaic composition. Cudworth.

The quality or state of being prosaic; a prosaic manner or style. [R.] Poe.

ccording to Moses; unlike Moses or his works. By this reckoning Moses should be most un Mosaic. Milton.

s, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. Fairholt.

A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate. -- Aurum mosaicum (See Mosaic.

he full size, to serve as a model for transferring or copying; -- used in the making of mosaics, tapestries, fresco pantings and the like; as, the cartoons of Raphael.

A compendium; an epitome; a summary. A compend and recapitulation of the Mosaical law. Bp. Burnet.

her metal, as silver or gold, or by etching, etc., to damask. Damaskeening is is partly mosaic work, partly engraving, and partly carving. Ure.

s, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. Rogers.

Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic. "Edenic joys." Mrs. Browning.