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n. [ Aldehyde + the ending -ine. The -n- is a euphonic insertion. ] (Chem.) one of the natural amino acids found combined in the proteins of most living tissues. It can be isolated as a white crystalline base, C3H7NO2. The natural form is the L-configuration. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ From T. Allan, who first distinguished it as a species. ] (min.) A silicate containing a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. balanus acorn + -ferous. ] Bearing or producing acorns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. balanus acorn: cf. F. balanite. ] (Paleon.) A fossil balanoid shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. Ceylan Ceylon. ] (Min.) A dingy blue, or grayish black, variety of spinel. It is also called pleonaste. [ Written also ceylonite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. dilaniatus, p. p. of dilaniare to dilacerate; di- = dis- + laniare to tear to pieces. ] To rend in pieces; to tear. [ R. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rending or tearing in pieces; dilaceration. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) See Pyroxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Fulah, Foolah /sing>. (Ethnol.) A peculiar African race of uncertain origin, but distinct from the negro tribes, inhabiting an extensive region of Western Soudan. Their color is brown or yellowish bronze. They are Muslims. Called also Fellatahs, Foulahs, and Fellani. Fulah and Fulani are also used adjectively; as, Fulah or Fulani empire, tribes, language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Fulani people, a member of the Niger-Congo family of languages. RHUD [ PJC ]

n. See Lanyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Laniary + -form. ] (Anat.) Shaped like a laniary, or canine, tooth. Owen. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. laniarius, fr. lanius butcher, laniare to tear in pieces: cf. F. laniaire. ] (Anat.) Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Laniary, a. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The shambles; a place of slaughter. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A laniary, or canine, tooth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. laniatus, p. p. of laniare. ] To tear in pieces. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. laniatio. ] A tearing in pieces. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. lanière. See Lanyard. ] [ Written also lanner, lanyer. ] 1. A thong of leather; a whip lash. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lanifer; lana wool + ferre to bear: cf. F. lanifère. ] Bearing or producing wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. lanificus; lana wool + facere to make. ] Working in wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. lanificium: cf. OF. lanifice. ] Anything made of wool. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. laniger; lano wool + gerere to hear. ] Bearing or producing wool. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ NL. Lanius (fr. L. lanius a butcher), the typical genus + -oid. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the shrikes (family Laniidæ). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to, or named from, Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the navigator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Astron.) Either of two conspicuous celestial nebulae near the south celestial pole, resembling thin white clouds, each of which is a galaxy{ 2 } smaller than but separate from the Milky Way galaxy, and together they are the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy. They are not visible from the northern hemisphere, and are named after Ferdinand Magellan, who saw them in his expedition, which passed through the Strait of Magellan in South America, and one ship of which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. me`las, -anos, black. ] 1. Melanotic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Ethnol.) Of or pertaining to the black-haired races. Prichard. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black. ] (Physiol.) A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. me`las, -anos, black. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A disease; black jaundice. See Melaena. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ethnol.) The character of having a high degree of pigmentation, as shown in dark skin, eyes, and hair. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. me`las, me`lanos, black: cf. F. mélanite. ] (Min.) A black variety of garnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Plani- + L. folium leaf. ] (Bot.) Flat-leaved. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Having a plane surface; as, a planiform, gliding, or arthrodial articulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Plani- + -meter. Cf. Planometer. ] An instrument for measuring the area of any plane figure, however irregular, by passing a tracer around the bounding line; a platometer. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. planimétrique. ] Of or pertaining to planimetry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. planimétrie. ] The mensuration of plane surfaces; -- distinguished from stereometry, or the mensuration of volumes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & vb. n. fr. Plane, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Planing machine. (a) See Planer. (b) A complex machine for planing wood, especially boards, containing usually a rapidly revolving cutter, which chips off the surface in small shavings as the piece to be planed is passed under it by feeding apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Planipennia. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. planus plane + penna wing. ] (Zool.) A suborder of Neuroptera, including those that have broad, flat wings, as the ant-lion, lacewing, etc. Called also Planipennes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Plani- + petal. ] (Bot.) Having flat petals. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Planished p. pr. & vb. n. Planishing. ] [ OF. planir, F. planer. See Plane, v., and -ish. ] To make smooth or plane, as a metallic surface; to condense, toughen, and polish by light blows with a hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, planishes. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

Planishing rolls (Coining), rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Plani- + sphere: cf. F. planisphère. See Plain, and Sphere. ] The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane; especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a plane with adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing the position of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars, etc., for any given date or hour. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a planisphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ . [ L. planus. See Plane, a. ] Combining forms signifying flat, level, plane; as planifolious, planimetry, plano-concave. [ 1913 Webster ]