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Jade :: "Jade (n.) A stone, commonly of a pale to dark green color but sometimes whitish. It is very hard and compact, capable of fine polish, and is used for ornamental purposes and for implements, esp. in Eastern countries and among many early peoples..

Starling :: Starling (n.) Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. The European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black, with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is a sociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called also stare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastor contra..

Silicon :: Silicon (n.) A nonmetalic element analogous to carbon. It always occurs combined in nature, and is artificially obtained in the free state, usually as a dark brown amorphous powder, or as a dark crystalline substance with a meetallic luster. Its oxide is silica, or common quartz, and in this form, or as silicates, it is, next to oxygen, the most abundant element of the earth's crust. Silicon is characteristically the element of the mineral kingdom, as carbon is of the organic world. Symbol Si. A

Sooty :: Sooty (superl.) Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark.

Brahma :: Brahma (n.) A valuable variety of large, domestic fowl, peculiar in having the comb divided lengthwise into three parts, and the legs well feathered. There are two breeds, the dark or penciled, and the light; -- called also Brahmapootra..

Indolin :: Indolin (n.) A dark resinous substance, polymeric with indol, and obtained by the reduction of indigo white..

Caliginous :: Caliginous (a.) Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.

Groper :: Groper (n.) One who gropes; one who feels his way in the dark, or searches by feeling..

Daphnin :: Daphnin (n.) A dark green bitter resin extracted from the mezereon (Daphne mezereum) and regarded as the essential principle of the plant.

Scotomy :: Scotomy (n.) Obscuration of the field of vision due to the appearance of a dark spot before the eye.

Dolerite :: Dolerite (n.) A dark-colored, basic, igneous rock, composed essentially of pyroxene and a triclinic feldspar with magnetic iron. By many authors it is considered equivalent to a coarse-grained basalt..

Black Vomit :: Black vomit () A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

Cimmerian :: Cimmerian (a.) Without any light; intensely dark.

Sea Bass :: Sea bass () A large marine food fish (Serranus, / Centropristis, atrarius) which abounds on the Atlantic coast of the United States. It is dark bluish, with black bands, and more or less varied with small white spots and blotches. Called also, locally, blue bass, black sea bass, blackfish, bluefish, and black perch..

Candite :: Candite (n.) A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon..

Pigfoot :: Pigfoot (n.) A marine fish (Scorpaena porcus), native of Europe. It is reddish brown, mottled with dark brown and black..

Venous :: Venous (a.) Contained in the veins, or having the same qualities as if contained in the veins, that is, having a dark bluish color and containing an insufficient amount of oxygen so as no longer to be fit for oxygenating the tissues; -- said of the blood, and opposed to arterial..

Darkful :: Darkful (a.) Full of darkness.

Glance :: Glance (n.) A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance..

Dim :: Dim (v. t.) To render dim, obscure, or dark; to make less bright or distinct; to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse..

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