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Cachalot :: Cachalot (n.) The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale..

Pomaceous :: Pomaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a suborder (Pomeae) of rosaceous plants, which includes the true thorn trees, the quinces, service berries, medlars, and loquats, as well as the apples, pears, crabs, etc..

Priapean :: Priapean (n.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each..

Spice :: Spice (n.) A vegetable production of many kinds, fragrant or aromatic and pungent to the taste, as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, allspice, ginger, cloves, etc., which are used in cookery and to flavor sauces, pickles, etc..

Filoplumaceous :: Filoplumaceous (a.) Having the structure of a filoplume.

Reed-mace :: Reed-mace (n.) The cat-tail.

Rot :: Rot (v. t.) To expose, as flax, to a process of maceration, etc., for the purpose of separating the fiber; to ret..

Grimace :: Grimace (n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face..

Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber..

Ret :: Ret (v. t.) To prepare for use, as flax, by separating the fibers from the woody part by process of soaking, macerating, and other treatment..

Macerate :: Macerate (v. t.) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

Hecdecane :: Hecdecane (n.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane..

Glumaceous :: Glumaceous (a.) Having glumes; consisting of glumes.

Mace :: Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor..

Cow-pilot :: Cow-pilot (n.) A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); -- called also mojarra..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand..

Mace :: Mace (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains..

Philippic :: Philippic (n.) Any one of the series of famous orations of Demosthenes, the Grecian orator, denouncing Philip, king of Macedon..

Pharmacist :: Pharmacist (n.) One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.

Club-rush :: Club-rush (n.) A rushlike plant, the reed mace or cat-tail, or some species of the genus Scirpus. See Bulrush..

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