(n.) A small nodule or cystic tumor, common on the nose, etc., which on pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

(n.) A water course; a rivulet.

(n.) The dry bed of a small stream.

(n.) A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine, poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of manly grace and beauty; -- called also Phebus.

(a.) With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.

(n.) Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

(n.) A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc.; and of plants in a whitish condition from the absence of chlorophyll.

(n.) Same as Leucoma.

(n.) A genus of perching birds, including the European kingfisher (Alcedo ispida). See Halcyon.

(n.) Pica type; -- so called by French printers.

(n.) Alt. of Corosso

(n.) An Australian name for Marsilea Drummondii, a four-leaved cryptogamous plant, sometimes used for food.

(a.) A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade.

(a.) The art of painting on freshly spread plaster, before it dries.

(a.) In modern parlance, incorrectly applied to painting on plaster in any manner.

(a.) A painting on plaster in either of senses a and b.

(v. t.) To paint in fresco, as walls.

(v. t.) To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.

(v. i.) To labor too hard; to do too much.

(n.) A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.

(n.) A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

(n.) A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

(n.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).

(n.) A passerine bird of the family Dicruridae. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

() A hot, oppressive wind which sometimes blows in the Mediterranean, particularly on the eastern coast of Spain.

(n.) A kind of dolphin (Platanista Gangeticus) native of the river Ganges; the Gangetic dolphin. It has a long, slender, somewhat spatulate beak.

(a.) Robbed; borrowed.

(n.) same as Rust, n., 2.

(n.) Same as Annotto.

(n.) A two-masted passenger boat or small vessel, used in the bay of Manila.

(n.) A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is a universal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.

(n.) A bead of rough carnelian. Arangoes were formerly imported from Bombay for use in the African slave trade.

(a.) Having four leaves to the sheet; of the form or size of a quarto.

(n.) Originally, a book of the size of the fourth of sheet of printing paper; a size leaves; in present usage, a book of a square or nearly square form, and usually of large size.

(adv. & a.) In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

(n.) Armada.

(n.) A kind of ruff for the neck; a turned-down collar; a rebato.

(n.) A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.

(n.) A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

(n.) A Spanish dance, or the lively music which accompanies it.

(n.) Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.

(n.) Cotton cloth printed with a figured pattern.

(a.) Made of, or having the appearance of, calico; -- often applied to an animal, as a horse or cat, on whose body are large patches of a color strikingly different from its main color.

(n.) Dimness or obscurity of sight, dependent upon a speck on the cornea; also, the speck itself.

(n.) A plant of the family of grasses, and genus Bambusa, growing in tropical countries.

(v. t.) To flog with the bamboo.

(n.) A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.

(n.) The skipjack (Sarda Mediterranea) of the Atlantic, an important and abundant food fish on the coast of the United States, and (S. Chilensis) of the Pacific, and other related species. They are large and active fishes, of a blue color with black oblique stripes.

(n.) The medregal (Seriola fasciata), an edible fish of the southern of the United States and the West Indies.

(n.) The cobia or crab eater (Elacate canada), an edible fish of the Middle and Southern United States.

(n.) The sailfish; -- called also woohoo.

(n.) A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

(n.) A large grazing farm where horses and cattle are raised; -- distinguished from hacienda, a cultivated farm or plantation.

(n.) Same as Broncho.

(n.) Beebread.

(n.) A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.

(n.) A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.

(a.) Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.

(n.) A sword or sword blade made at Toledo in Spain, which city was famous in the 16th and 17th centuries for the excellence of its weapons.

(n.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked.

(n.) The ringdove.

(n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.

(n.) One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

(n.) An Indian who serves as a messenger.

(n.) A beat of drum, or sound of a trumpet or bugle, at night, giving notice to soldiers to retreat, or to repair to their quarters in garrison, or to their tents in camp.

(v. t.) To color, as the flesh, by pricking in coloring matter, so as to form marks or figures which can not be washed out.

(n.) An indelible mark or figure made by puncturing the skin and introducing some pigment into the punctures; -- a mode of ornamentation practiced by various barbarous races, both in ancient and modern times, and also by some among civilized nations, especially by sailors.

(n.) The sea holly. See Eryngo.

(n.) See Duet.

(n.) A plant of the genus Eryngium.

(a.) A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme.

(a.) A word rhyming with another word.

(n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

(n.) Same as Rabato.

(n.) Any one of several species of brilliant South American humming birds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeply forked tails; -- called also firetail.

(n.) See Catechu.

(n.) A small country house.

(n.) A building or room used for meetings, or public amusements, for dancing, gaming, etc.

(n.) A game at cards. See Cassino.

(n.) A peculiar East Indian mammal (Galleopithecus volans), having along the sides, connecting the fore and hind limbs, a parachutelike membrane, by means of which it is able to make long leaps, like the flying squirrel; -- called also flying lemur.

(n.) One of a peculiar race inhabiting Arctic America and Greenland. In many respects the Eskimos resemble the Mongolian race.

(v. t.) To echo back; to reverberate again; as, the hills reecho the roar of cannon.

(v. i.) To give echoes; to return back, or be reverberated, as an echo; to resound; to be resonant.

(n.) The echo of an echo; a repeated or second echo.

(n.) A chromolithograph.

(n.) A bird belonging to Cuculus, Coccyzus, and several allied genera, of many species.

(n.) The body.

(n.) A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like.

(n.) One who causes bad luck.

(n.) A European bird of the genus Upupa (U. epops), having a beautiful crest, which it can erect or depress at pleasure. Called also hoop, whoop. The name is also applied to several other species of the same genus and allied genera.

(n.) Advice; counsel; suggestion; also, a dispatch or advice boat.

(n.) The soft woolly hair which covers most parts of the mammal fetus, and in man is shed before or soon after birth.

(n.) A leguminous tree (Dalbergia Sissoo) of the northern parts of India; also, the dark brown compact and durable timber obtained from it. It is used in shipbuilding and for gun carriages, railway ties, etc.

(n.) A devotee.

(n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

(n.) A mourning veil formerly worn by women.

(n.) A kind of mask; particularly, a half mask worn at masquerades, to conceal the upper part of the face. Dominos were formerly worn by ladies in traveling.

(n.) A costume worn as a disguise at masquerades, consisting of a robe with a hood adjustable at pleasure.

(n.) A person wearing a domino.

(n.) A game played by two or more persons, with twenty-eight pieces of wood, bone, or ivory, of a flat, oblong shape, plain at the back, but on the face divided by a line in the middle, and either left blank or variously dotted after the manner of dice. The game is played by matching the spots or the blank of an unmatched half of a domino already played

(n.) One of the pieces with which the game of dominoes is played.

(n.) A southern constellation, within which is the south pole of the ecliptic; -- called also sometimes Xiphias, or the Swordfish.

(n.) A large, oceanic fish of the genus Coryphaena.

(n.) One of the native inhabitants of the pampas, of Spanish-American descent. They live mostly by rearing cattle.

(v. t.) To surround with a halo.

(n.) Old beer; sharp or strong liquor.

(n.) A Chilian burrowing rodent of the genus Spalacopus.

(n.) The oorial.

(n.) The title of the feudal nobles of Japan.

(n.) Alt. of Shintiism

(n.) A metallic alloy of a deep black color.

(n.) The art, process, or method of decorating metal with incised designs filled with the black alloy.

(n.) A piece of metal, or any other object, so decorated.

(n.) An impression on paper taken from an ancient incised decoration or metal plate.

(n.) A native of Hindostan; a Hindoo.

(a.) in the gugue style, but not strictly like a fugue.

(n.) A composition resembling a fugue.

(v. i.) A salted and smoked fish, as the pilchard.

(n.) The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant

(n.) The young of an animal in the womb, or more specifically, before its parts are developed and it becomes a fetus (see Fetus).

(n.) The germ of the plant, which is inclosed in the seed and which is developed by germination.

(a.) Pertaining to an embryo; rudimentary; undeveloped; as, an embryo bud.

(n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro).

(n.) A genus of African lemurs, including numerous species.

(n.) The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

(n.) A large ornamental tree (Ginkgo biloba) from China and Japan, belonging to the Yew suborder of Coniferae. Its leaves are so like those of some maidenhair ferns, that it is also called the maidenhair tree.

(n.) Benne (Sesamum orientale); also, its seeds; -- so called in the West Indies.

(n.) A genus of motile bacteria characterized by short, slightly sinuous filaments and an undulatory motion; also, an individual of this genus.

(a.) Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus /, /, or /, /, written over or under the notes to be so performed; -- opposed to staccato.

(n.) Plaster of any kind used as a coating for walls, especially, a fine plaster, composed of lime or gypsum with sand and pounded marble, used for internal decorations and fine work.

(n.) Work made of stucco; stuccowork.

(v. t.) To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.

(n.) The working room of an artist.

(a.) In just, correct, or suitable time.

(n.) A trill or shake. See Trill.

(adv.) In haste; quickly; rapidly.

(n.) Same as Para.

(v. t.) To quit; to relinquish; to leave.

(v. t.) To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach, or anticipated.

(v. i.) To go before; to precede; -- used especially in the present and past participles.

(adv.) To this; hereunto.

(n.) A loud exclamation; a call to invite attention or to incite a person or an animal; a shout.

(v. i.) To cry out; to exclaim with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo.

(v. t.) To encourage with shouts.

(v. t.) To chase with shouts or outcries.

(v. t.) To call or shout to; to hail.

(n.) An exclamation to call attention or to encourage one.

(n.) A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.

(n.) A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which bore into submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships, etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.

(n.) An adroit and unscrupulous intriguer.

(n.) Alt. of Hindu

(n.) A genus of leeches, including the common medicinal leech. See Leech.

(n.) The wood pigeon.

(a.) Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.

(a.) Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.

(n.) A variety of shaddock, called also grape fruit.

(n.) A kind of cloak worn by the Spanish Americans, having the form of a blanket, with a slit in the middle for the head to pass through. A kind of poncho made of rubber or painted cloth is used by the mounted troops in the United States service.

(n.) A trade name for camlets, or stout worsteds.

(n.) A red African antelope (Kobus Vardoni) allied to the water buck.

(n.) Alt. of Guru

(n.) A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family, having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood is crossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sour gum, and pepperidge.

(a. & adv.) Slow; slowly, leisurely, and gracefully. When repeated, adagio, adagio, it directs the movement to be very slow.

(n.) A piece of music in adagio time; a slow movement; as, an adagio of Haydn.

(n.) The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

(n.) A communistic building erected by certain Indian tribes of Arizona and New Mexico. It is often of large size and several stories high, and is usually built either of stone or adobe. The term is also applied to any Indian village in the same region.

(n.) A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.

(n.) The sweet potato (see below).

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

(n.) The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.

(n.) Alt. of Manitu

(a.) Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain.

(a.) Made of the wool of the merino sheep.

(n.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool.

(n.) A fine fabric of merino wool.

(n.) A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids, common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used for fish bait.

(v. t.) To travel over.

(v. t.) To exceed; to surpass.

(v. t.) To cover.

(v. t.) To oppress; to weigh down.

(n.) The South American hairy armadillo (Dasypus villosus).

(n.) A flute.

(n.) A dynamo-electric machine.

(n.) Number; -- often abbrev. No.

(n.) A messenger.

(n.) The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios.

(indef. pron.) Whatsoever; whosoever; whatever; anything that.

(n.) A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.

(n.) Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.

(n.) The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attended with black vomit. See Black vomit.

(n.) See Voodooism.

(n.) One who practices voodooism; a negro sorcerer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to voodooism, or a voodoo; as, voodoo incantations.

(n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8¡.

(a.) Having eight leaves to a sheet; as, an octavo form, book, leaf, size, etc.

() In the month immediately preceding the present; as, on the 1st ultimo; -- usually abbreviated to ult. Cf. Proximo.

(n.) See Melluc/o.

(n.) One of the half-breed descendants of whites and Indians; a mestizo; -- so called throughout Central America. They are usually of a yellowish orange tinge.

(n.) A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut.

(n.) An Abyssinian rosaceous tree (Brayera anthelmintica), the flowers of which are used as a vermifuge.

(n.) A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

(n.) A chilblain.

(n.) A little flute or flageolet, especially that which is used to teach birds.

(n.) The sailfish.

(n.) The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.

(n.) See Motive, n., 3, 4.

(v. t.) To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.

(v. t.) To overtask. or overtax; to fatigue; to exhaust; as, to overdo one's strength.

(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.

(n.) A singular nocturnal parrot (Strigops habroptilus), native of New Zealand. It lives in holes during the day, but is active at night. It resembles an owl in its colors and general appearance. It has large wings, but can fly only a short distance. Called also owl parrot, night parrot, and night kaka.

(n.) Cider brandy.