Lead

n.

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide.

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Scyllite

n.

A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resembling inosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidney of the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.

Home

n.

The home base; he started for home.

Non est inventus

The return of a sheriff on a writ, when the defendant is not found in his county.

Rascal

v.

A mean, trickish fellow; a base, dishonest person; a rogue; a scoundrel; a trickster.

Jig

v. t.

To sing to the tune of a jig.

Guarantor

n.

One who engages to secure another in any right or possession.

Ramble

n.

A bed of shale over the seam.

Fertile

a.

Containing pollen; -- said of anthers.

Fume

n.

Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or airy; idle conceit; vain imagination.

Force pump

A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure; in distinction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.

Hoof

v. i.

To walk as cattle.

Rectory

n.

A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.