(n.) Cotton cloth, printed with flowers and other devices, in a number of different colors, and often glazed.

(n.) A form of silica, or silicon dioxide (SiO2), occurring in hexagonal crystals, which are commonly colorless and transparent, but sometimes also yellow, brown, purple, green, and of other colors; also in cryptocrystalline massive forms varying in color and degree of transparency, being sometimes opaque.

(n.) A burrowing rodent (Spalax typhlus), native of Russia and Asia Minor. It has the general appearance of a mole, and is destitute of eyes. Called also mole rat.

(n.) A kind of Persian wine; -- so called from the place whence it is brought.

(n.) A deity among the ancient Syrians, in honor of whom the Hebrew idolatresses held an annual lamentation. This deity has been conjectured to be the same with the Phoenician Adon, or Adonis.

(n.) The fourth month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, -- supposed to correspond nearly with our month of July.

(n.) A howitzer.