Upgrow

v. i.

To grow up.

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Hemisecting

p. pr. & vb. n.

of Hemisect

Foam

n.

To gather foam; to froth; as, the billows foam.

Heterotropous

a.

Having the embryo or ovule oblique or transverse to the funiculus; amphitropous.

Gangrel

v. i.

Wandering; vagrant.

Saxifraga

n.

A genus of exogenous polypetalous plants, embracing about one hundred and eighty species. See Saxifrage.

Xylographical

a.

Of or pertaining to xylography, or wood engraving.

Adiabatic

a.

Not giving out or receiving heat.

Jewelling

of Jewel

Jockeyed

imp. & p. p.

of Jockey

Rubiaceous

a.

Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.

Nescience

n.

Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.

Needly

a.

Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard.