अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

Without any light; intensely dark.

A soft, earthy, clayey mineral, of whitish or grayish color.

A strong saddle girth, as of canvas.

A tight grip.

A genus of trees growing naturally on the Andes in Peru and adjacent countries, but now cultivated in the East Indies, producing a medicinal bark of great value.

The bark of any species of Cinchona containing three per cent. or more of bitter febrifuge alkaloids; Peruvian bark; Jesuits' bark.

Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produce it.

Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.

One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.

A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.

To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.

An epoch at the close of the American lower Silurian system. The rocks are well developed near Cincinnati, Ohio. The group includes the Hudson River and Lorraine shales of New York.

A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb.

That which encompasses or incloses; an inclosure.

The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column.

Having or wearing a cincture or girdle.

A scale thrown off in forging metal.

A hot coal without flame; an ember.

Partly burned or vitrified coal, or other combustible, in which fire is extinct.