Kainite

n.

A compound salt consisting chiefly of potassium chloride and magnesium sulphate, occurring at the Stassfurt salt mines in Prussian Saxony.

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Verdured

a.

Covered with verdure.

Scenograph

n.

A perspective representation or general view of an object.

Year

n.

Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

Hoarsely

adv.

With a harsh, grating sound or voice.

Gunocracy

n.

See Gyneocracy.

Aggrace

n.

Grace; favor.

Tachylyte

n.

A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decomposable by acids and readily fusible.

Falanaka

n.

A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

Paginal

a.

Consisting of pages.

Hissing

n.

The occasion of contempt; the object of scorn and derision.

Reprovable

a.

Worthy of reproof or censure.

Rostrulum

n.

A little rostrum, or beak, as of an insect.