(n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

(n.) A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

(n.) Abbreviation of pyrogallic acid.

(n.) A liliaceous plant (Calochortus Nuttallii) of Western North America, and its edible bulb; -- so called by the Ute Indians and the Mormons.

(n.) Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.

(n.) Alt. of Pacos

() Alt. of Coco palm

(n.) A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

(n.) An African anthropoid ape, supposed to be a variety of the chimpanzee.

(a.) A tune, air, strain, or a whole piece, played by a single person on an instrument, or sung by a single voice.

(adv. & conj.) In like manner; likewise.

(adv. & conj.) In addition; besides; as well; further; too.

(adv. & conj.) Even as; as; so.

(n.) Formerly the part sung by the highest male, or counter-tenor, voices; now the part sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

(n.) An alto singer.

(n.) The name of the ship which carried Jason and his fifty-four companions to Colchis, in quest of the Golden Fleece.

(n.) A large constellation in the southern hemisphere, called also Argo Navis. In modern astronomy it is replaced by its three divisions, Carina, Puppis, and Vela.

(n.) A large pulpit or reading desk, in the early Christian churches.

(n.) Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, or gourd. See Gourd.

(interj.) Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening away animals, especially fowls.

(n.) A pit or vat for packing away green fodder for winter use so as to exclude air and outside moisture. See Ensilage.

(n.) An inflammation, with enlargement, of a lymphatic gland, esp. in the groin, as in syphilis.

(n.) A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.

(n.) Same as Tyro.

(n.) High flavor; strong scent.

(conj. / adv.) Therefore; consequently; -- often used in a jocular way.

(n.) A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var. esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. They have large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, which are cooked and used for food in tropical countries.

(n.) A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies, much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick; also, as starch, for stiffening textile fabrics. It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees, but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu; also from several cycadaceous plants (Cycas revoluta, Zamia integrifolia, etc.).

(n.) The Muse who presided over history.

(n.) A dish of stewed meat of different kinds.

(n.) A mixture; a medley.

(n.) A collection of miscellaneous pieces.

(n.) The standard atmospheric pressure used in certain physical measurements calculations; conventionally, that pressure under which the barometer stands at 760 millimeters, at a temperature of 0¡ Centigrade, at the level of the sea, and in the latitude of Paris.

(adv.) In two; in twain; asunder.

(n.) A large and valuable fish of the Mackerel family, of the genus Scomberomorus. Two species are found in the West Indies and less commonly on the Atlantic coast of the United States, -- the common cero (Scomberomorus caballa), called also kingfish, and spotted, or king, cero (S. regalis).

(prep.) To; -- now used only in antiquated, formal, or scriptural style. See To.

(prep.) Until; till.

(conj.) Until; till.

(n.) An African parrot (Psittacus erithacus), very commonly kept as a cage bird; -- called also gray parrot.

(n.) See Trona.

(n.) A large, extinct bird (Didus ineptus), formerly inhabiting the Island of Mauritius. It had short, half-fledged wings, like those of the ostrich, and a short neck and legs; -- called also dronte. It was related to the pigeons.

(n.) See Lepidosiren.

(n.) A shrewd trick; an antic; a caper.

(n.) Alt. of Slue

(n.) That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.

(n.) In any wall, that part of the basement included between the base and the base course. See Base course, under Base.

(n.) In interior decoration, the lower part of the wall of an apartment when adorned with moldings, or otherwise specially decorated.

(n.) A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.

(n.) The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).

(n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.

(n.) A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis.

(n.) A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

(n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

(n.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

(n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.

(v. t.) To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.

(v. t.) To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

(v. i.) To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

(n.) An authoritative prohibition or negative; a forbidding; an interdiction.

(n.) A power or right possessed by one department of government to forbid or prohibit the carrying out of projects attempted by another department; especially, in a constitutional government, a power vested in the chief executive to prevent the enactment of measures passed by the legislature. Such a power may be absolute, as in the case of the Tribunes of the People in ancient Rome, or limited, as in the case of the President of the United States. Called also the veto power.

(n.) The exercise of such authority; an act of prohibition or prevention; as, a veto is probable if the bill passes.

(n.) A document or message communicating the reasons of the executive for not officially approving a proposed law; -- called also veto message.

(v. t.) To prohibit; to negative; also, to refuse assent to, as a legislative bill, and thus prevent its enactment; as, to veto an appropriation bill.

(n.) Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.

(n.) A composition for three parts or three instruments.

(n.) The secondary, or episodical, movement of a minuet or scherzo, as in a sonata or symphony, or of a march, or of various dance forms; -- not limited to three parts or instruments.

(v. t.) To reverse, as what has been done; to annul; to bring to naught.

(v. t.) To loose; to open; to take to piece; to unfasten; to untie; hence, to unravel; to solve; as, to undo a knot; to undo a puzzling question; to undo a riddle.

(v. t.) To bring to poverty; to impoverish; to ruin, as in reputation, morals, hopes, or the like; as, many are undone by unavoidable losses, but more undo themselves by vices and dissipation, or by indolence.

(prep.) To the inside of; within. It is used in a variety of applications.

(prep.) Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts; -- following verbs expressing motion; as, come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants.

(prep.) Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as, to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment.

(prep.) Indicating insertion; as, to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition.

(prep.) Denoting inclusion; as, put these ideas into other words.

(prep.) Indicating the passing of a thing from one form, condition, or state to another; as, compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly.

(n.) A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.

(n.) A cipher; nothing; naught.

(n.) The point from which the graduation of a scale, as of a thermometer, commences.

(n.) Fig.: The lowest point; the point of exhaustion; as, his patience had nearly reached zero.

(n.) A kind of domestic cattle reared in Asia for its flesh and milk. It is supposed to be a hybrid between the zebu and the yak.

(n.) A game of ball of Eastern origin, resembling hockey, with the players on horseback.

(n.) A similar game played on the ice, or on a prepared floor, by players wearing skates.

(n.) A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.

(n.) A large European sturgeon (Acipenser huso), inhabiting the region of the Black and Caspian Seas. It sometimes attains a length of more than twelve feet, and a weight of two thousand pounds. Called also hausen.

(n.) The huchen, a large salmon.

(n.) Hypochondria.

(n.) Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture.

(a.) Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distant in manner; reserved.

(adv.) In a high degree; to a great extent; greatly; very.

(n.) A strange thing or person.

(n.) A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.

(prep.) On the top of; upon; on. See On to, under On, prep.

(n.) A toucan (Ramphastos toco) having a very large beak. See Illust. under Toucan.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of fresh-water mussels belonging to Unio and many allied genera.

(n.) See Lotto.

(n.) A compositor.

(n.) A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos there are often white bands, crosses, or arches, resulting from the same atmospheric conditions.

(n.) A circle of light; especially, the bright ring represented in painting as surrounding the heads of saints and other holy persons; a glory; a nimbus.

(n.) An ideal glory investing, or affecting one's perception of, an object.

(n.) A colored circle around a nipple; an areola.

(v. t. & i.) To form, or surround with, a halo; to encircle with, or as with, a halo.

(n.) A wind instrument of music in use among the Spaniards.

(n.) A light open cotton fabric used for window curtains.

(adv.) A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher.

(n.) A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of the same genus. Called also loco weed.

(n.) A genus of birds, including the peacocks.

(n.) The Peacock, a constellation of the southern hemisphere.

(n.) See Attar.

(n.) An abbreviation of Kilogram.

(n.) The boss of a shield, at or near the middle, and usually projecting, sometimes in a sharp spike.

(n.) A boss, or rounded elevation, or a corresponding depression, in a palate, disk, or membrane; as, the umbo in the integument of the larvae of echinoderms or in the tympanic membrane of the ear.

(n.) One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.

(n.) A beginner in learning; one who is in the rudiments of any branch of study; a person imperfectly acquainted with a subject; a novice.

(n.) The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous.

(n.) A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry.

(n.) A Roman emperor notorius for debauchery and barbarous cruelty; hence, any profligate and cruel ruler or merciless tyrant.

(n.) A Spanish dollar; also, an Argentine, Chilian, Colombian, etc., coin, equal to from 75 cents to a dollar; also, a pound weight.

(adv.) A little; -- used chiefly in phrases indicating the time or movement; as, poco piu allegro, a little faster; poco largo, rather slow.

(n.) The dark red dried juice of certain plants, used variously in tanning, in dyeing, and as an astringent in medicine.