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n. [ F. ] A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. chélidoine, fr. L. chelidonia (sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr. chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a swallow. ] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the type genus of the Celastraceae, comprising the plants called climbing bittersweet; bittersweet and shrubby bittersweet; they are woody vines and shrubs native chiefly to Asia and Australia, bearing yellow to orange capsules which open to expose red-coated seeds. See also bittersweet{ 3b }.
Syn. -- genus Celastrus. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. [ L. caelatura, fr. caelare to engrave in relief. ] 1. The act or art of engraving or embossing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is engraved. [ Obs. ] Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. de + LL. pucella virgin, F. pucelle: cf. F. dépuceler. ] To deflour; to deprive of virginity. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) A kind of lichen (Cetraria Icelandica) found from the Arctic regions to the North Temperate zone. It furnishes a nutritious jelly and other forms of food, and is used in pulmonary complaints as a demulcent. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Min.) A transparent variety of calcite, the best of which is obtained in Iceland. It is used for the prisms of the polariscope, because of its strong double refraction. Cf. Calcite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Purslain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. porcelaine, It. porcellana, orig., the porcelain shell, or Venus shell (Cypræa porcellana), from a dim. fr. L. porcus pig, probably from the resemblance of the shell in shape to a pig's back. Porcelain was called after this shell, either on account of its smoothness and whiteness, or because it was believed to be made from it. See Pork. ] A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware. [ 1913 Webster ]

Porcelain, by being pure, is apt to break. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ivory porcelain, porcelain with a surface like ivory, produced by depolishing. See Depolishing. --
Porcelain clay. See under Clay. --
Porcelain crab (Zool.), any crab of the genus Porcellana and allied genera (family Porcellanidæ). They have a smooth, polished carapace. --
Porcelain jasper. (Min.) See Porcelanite. --
Porcelain printing, the transferring of an impression of an engraving to porcelain. --
Porcelain shell (Zool.), a cowry. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Geol.) Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. porcelanite. ] (Min.) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Of or pertaining to porcelain; resembling porcelain; as, porcelaneous shells. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having a smooth, compact shell without pores; -- said of certain Foraminifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Porcelaneous. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] Virginity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Purslane. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Sphacelated p. pr. & vb. n. Sphacelating. ] [ NL. sphacelare, sphacelatum, mortify: cf. F. sphacéler. See Sphacelus. ] (Med.) To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (Med.) To affect with gangrene. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. (Med.) Affected with gangrene; mortified. [ 1913 Webster ]