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Mouille :: Mouille (a.) Applied to certain consonants having a liquid or softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and –; in Portuguese, lh and nh..

Gentle :: Gentle (superl.) Soft; not violent or rough; not strong, loud, or disturbing; easy; soothing; pacific; as, a gentle touch; a gentle gallop ..

Astringent :: Astringent (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc..

Daub :: Daub (v. t.) To smear with soft, adhesive matter, as pitch, slime, mud, etc.; to plaster; to bedaub; to besmear..

Leatherwood :: Leatherwood (n.) A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, soft wood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in the Northern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy..

Unsoft :: Unsoft (a.) Not soft; hard; coarse; rough.

Auricularia :: Auricularia (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix..

Tubercle :: Tubercle (n.) A small mass or aggregation of morbid matter; especially, the deposit which accompanies scrofula or phthisis. This is composed of a hard, grayish, or yellowish, translucent or opaque matter, which gradually softens, and excites suppuration in its vicinity. It is most frequently found in the lungs, causing consumption..

Scumble :: Scumble (v. t.) To cover lighty, as a painting, or a drawing, with a thin wash of opaque color, or with color-crayon dust rubbed on with the stump, or to make any similar additions to the work, so as to produce a softened effect..

Coenenchyma :: Coenenchyma (n.) The common tissue which unites the polyps or zooids of a compound anthozoan or coral. It may be soft or more or less ossified. See Coral.

Challis :: Challis (n.) A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, for ladies' dresses..

Iodine :: Iodine (n.) A nonmetallic element, of the halogen group, occurring always in combination, as in the iodides. When isolated it is in the form of dark gray metallic scales, resembling plumbago, soft but brittle, and emitting a chlorinelike odor. Symbol I. Atomic weight 126.5. If heated, iodine volatilizes in beautiful violet vapors..

Tread-softly :: Tread-softly (n.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.

Muliebrity :: Muliebrity (n.) Hence: Effeminancy; softness.

Lenify :: Lenify (v. t.) To assuage; to soften; to mitigate; to alleviate.

Cutter :: Cutter (n.) A kind of soft yellow brick, used for facework; -- so called from the facility with which it can be cut..

Pottage :: Pottage (n.) A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge..

Hectograph :: Hectograph (n.) A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface of gelatin softened with glycerin..

Fledge :: Fledge (v. t. & i.) To furnish or adorn with any soft covering.

Silkiness :: Silkiness (n.) The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.

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