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Conine :: Conine (n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (v. t.) To render illegitimate; to declare or prove to be born out of wedlock; to bastardize; to illegitimatize.

Mutule :: Mutule (n.) A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta..

Whiteness :: Whiteness (n.) A flock of swans.

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..

Gimmal :: Gimmal (n.) Joined work whose parts move within each other; a pair or series of interlocked rings.

Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.

Numps :: Numps (n.) A dolt; a blockhead.

Wedlock :: Wedlock (v. t.) To marry; to unite in marriage; to wed.

Clock :: Clock (n.) A figure or figured work on the ankle or side of a stocking.

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling..

Landlock :: Landlock (v. t.) To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land..

Clock :: Clock (n.) A watch, esp. one that strikes..

Modillion :: Modillion (n.) The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances..

Horography :: Horography (n.) The art of constructing instruments for making the hours, as clocks, watches, and dials..

Woodenly :: Woodenly (adv.) Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly.

Clock :: Clock (v. t. & i.) To call, as a hen. See Cluck..

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The rough paving of a street to a grade with blocks of stone.

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Unlawfully begotten; born out of wedlock; bastard; as, an illegitimate child..

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