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Chimaera :: Chimaera (n.) A cartilaginous fish of several species, belonging to the order Holocephali. The teeth are few and large. The head is furnished with appendages, and the tail terminates in a point..

Concert :: Concert (v. t.) A musical entertainment in which several voices or instruments take part.

Bole :: Bole (n.) Any one of several varieties of friable earthy clay, usually colored more or less strongly red by oxide of iron, and used to color and adulterate various substances. It was formerly used in medicine. It is composed essentially of hydrous silicates of alumina, or more rarely of magnesia. See Clay, and Terra alba..

Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc..

Gamboge :: Gamboge (n.) A concrete juice, or gum resin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic and emetic..

Hesperornis :: Hesperornis (n.) A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceous deposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth, and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several species are known. See Illust. in Append..

Singular :: Singular (a.) Each; individual; as, to convey several parcels of land, all and singular..

Kind :: Kind (a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc..

Drill :: Drill (n.) A marine gastropod, of several species, which kills oysters and other bivalves by drilling holes through the shell. The most destructive kind is Urosalpinx cinerea..

Polymorphosis :: Polymorphosis (n.) The assumption of several structural forms without a corresponding difference in function; -- said of sponges, etc..

Bryony :: Bryony (n.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of B. alba (rough or white bryony) and of B. dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic..

Grunter :: Grunter (n.) One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2..

Sounding :: Sounding (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs)..

Dispoline :: Dispoline (n.) One of several isomeric organic bases of the quinoline series of alkaloids.

Cranberry :: Cranberry (n.) A red, acid berry, much used for making sauce, etc.; also, the plant producing it (several species of Vaccinum or Oxycoccus.) The high cranberry or cranberry tree is a species of Viburnum (V. Opulus), and the other is sometimes called low cranberry or marsh cranberry to distinguish it..

Swallow :: Swallow (v. i.) To perform the act of swallowing; as, his cold is so severe he is unable to swallow..

Pink :: Pink (v. t.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx..

Diligence :: Diligence (n.) Interested and persevering application; devoted and painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken; assiduity in service.

Belay :: Belay (v. t.) To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel..

Primordian :: Primordian (n.) A name given to several kinds of plums; as, red primordian, amber primordian, etc..

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