A natural family of birds comprising the New Zealand wrens, synonymous with Acanthisittidae.

The type genus for the bird family Xenicidae.

A present given to a guest or stranger, or to a foreign ambassador.

A house for the reception of strangers. In the Middle Ages, a room in a monastery for the reception and entertainment of strangers and pilgrims, and for the relief of paupers. [Called also Xenodocheion.]

Reception of strangers; hospitality.

Cross fertilization.

Same as Heterogenesis. The fancied production of an organism of one kind by an organism of another.

Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin of microzymes.

A mania for, or an inordinate attachment to, foreign customs, institutions, manners, fashions, etc.

A suborder of soft-rayed fresh-water fishes of which the blackfish of Alaska (Dallia pectoralis) is the type.

A very heavy, inert gaseous element of the noble gas group, occurring in the atmosphere in the proportion of one volume is about 20 millions. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. It can be condensed to a liquid boiling at -107/ C., and to a solid which melts at -111.9/ C. Symbol Xe (formerly also X); atomic number 54; atomic weight 131.3.

A suborder of fishes including Gobiesox and allied genera. These fishes have soft-rayed fins, and a ventral sucker supported in front by the pectoral fins. They are destitute of scales.

A native phosphate of yttrium occurring in yellowish-brown tetragonal crystals.

A cabassou.

The radical characteristic of xenylic compounds.

Pertaining to, derived from, designating, certain amido compounds obtained by reducing certain nitro derivatives of diphenyl.

An old money of account in Bombay, equal to three fifths of a rupee.

Sherry. See Sherry.

A shereef.

A gold coin formerly current in Egypt and Turkey, of the value of about 9s. 6d., or about $2.30 (ca. 1900); -- also, in Morocco, a ducat.

Ichthyosis. A skin disease characterized by the presence of numerous small pigmented spots resembling freckles, with which are subsequently mingled spots of atrophied skin.

A salt of xeronic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C8H12O4, related to fumaric acid, and obtained from citraconic acid as an oily substance having a bittersweet taste; -- so called from its tendency to form its anhydride.

Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts.

Drought-loving; able withstand the absence or lack of moisture.

An abnormal dryness of the eyeball produced usually by long-continued inflammation and subsequent atrophy of the conjunctiva.

Xerophthalmia.

A small genus of North American herbs having grasslike basal leaves: squaw grass; sometimes placed in family Melanthiaceae.

A plant adapted for life with a limited supply of water; compare hydrophyte and mesophyte.

Adapted to a xeric (or dry) environment; as, cacti are xerophytic plants; xerophytic adaptations.

A copying machine which copies graphic matter by the action of light on an electrically charged photoconductive insulating surface in which the latent image is developed with a resinous powder.

To copy a printed document on a xerographic device.

The Roman number symbolizing the value eleven. Used after a noun it may symbolize the ordinal number; as, Superbowl XI.

The capital of the ancient Chinese empire.

The Roman number symbolizing the value twelve; denoting a quantity consisting of 12 items or units. Used after a noun it may symbolize the ordinal number; as, Superbowl XII.

the Roman number symbolizing the value thirteen. Used after a noun it may symbolize the ordinal number; as, Superbowl XIII.

A genus of fishes comprising the common swordfish.

A genus of plants of the order Haemodraceae, having two-ranked, sword-shaped leaves.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cetacean of the genus Xiphius or family Xiphiidae.

The posterior, or fourth, lateral plate in the plastron of turtles; -- called also xiphisternum.

The posterior segment, or extremity, of the sternum; -- sometimes called metasternum, ensiform cartilage, ensiform process, or xiphoid process. The xiphiplastron.

A genus of cetaceans having a long, pointed, bony beak, usually two tusklike teeth in the lower jaw, but no teeth in the upper jaw.

An extinct genus of artiodactylous mammals found in the European Tertiary formations. It had slender legs, didactylous feet, and small canine teeth.

Like a sword; ensiform. Of or pertaining to the xiphoid process; xiphoidian.

Xiphoid.

Having sword-shaped leaves.

See Xiphura.

Same as Limuloidea. Called also Xiphosura.

the Roman number symbolizing the value forty.

Christmas; -- an abbreviation for the Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland.

An abbreviation for crosstalk, the presence of an unwanted signal via an accidental coupling.

The Roman number symbolizing the value fifteen.

The Roman number symbolizing the value sixteen.

The Roman number symbolizing the value seventeen.

The Roman number symbolizing the value eighteen.

The Roman number representing twenty; denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units.

The Roman number representing twenty-one.

The Roman number representing twenty-two.

The Roman number representing twenty-three.

The Roman number representing twenty-four.

The Roman number representing twenty-five.

The Roman number representing twenty-six.

The Roman number representing twenty-seven.

The Roman number representing twenty-eight.

Very obscene or pornographic.

An acid amide derivative of xylic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

A gummy substance of the pentosan class, present in woody tissue, and yielding xylose on hydrolysis; wood gum.

Wood coal, or charcoal; -- so called in distinction from mineral coal.

The type genus of the natural family Xylariaceae; fungi with perithecia in the upper part of erect black woody stromata.

A natural family of fungi characterized by dark brown to back spores.

A salt of xylic acid.

That portion of a fibrovascular bundle which has developed, or will develop, into wood cells; -- distinguished from phloem.

Any of a group of three metameric hydrocarbons of the aromatic series, found in coal and wood tar, and so named because found in crude wood spirit. They are colorless, oily, inflammable liquids, C6H4.(CH3)2, being dimethyl benzenes, and are called respectively orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene. Called also xylol.

Any one of six metameric phenol derivatives of xylene, obtained as crystalline substances, (CH3)2.C6H3.OH.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid related to mesitylenic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of sodium and carbon dioxide on crude xylenol.

Pertaining to, derived from, or related to, xylene; specifically, designating any one of several metameric acids produced by the partial oxidation of mesitylene and pseudo-cumene.

Pertaining to, or designating, either one of two distinct acids which are derived from xylic acid and related compounds, and are metameric with uvitic acid.

Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2, resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, or easily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derived from metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. They are called the amido xylenes.

A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo.

A liquid hydrocarbon found in crude wood spirits.

A yellow oil having a geraniumlike odor, produced as a side product in making phorone; -- called also xylite oil.

The dried twigs of a Syrian tree (Balsamodendron Gileadense).

Bearing fruit which becomes hard or woody.

A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. See Carpenter bee, under Carpenter.

Nascent wood; wood cells in a forming state. Lignin.

An engraving on wood, or the impression from such an engraving; a print by xylography.

One who practices xylography.

Of or pertaining to xylography, or wood engraving.

Resembling wood; having the nature of wood.

A substance resembling pyroxylin, obtained by the action of nitric acid on starch; -- called also nitramidin.

Same as Xylene.

The branch of dendrology treating of the gross and minute structure of wood.

See Zylonite.

A genus of marine bivalves which bore holes in wood. They are allied to Pholas.

One of a tribe of beetles whose larvae bore or live in wood. Any species of Xylophaga. Any one of the Xylophagides.

A tribe or family of dipterous flies whose larvae live in decayed wood. Some of the tropical species are very large.

Eating, boring in, or destroying, wood; -- said especially of certain insect larvae, crustaceans, and mollusks. Of or pertaining to the genus Xylophaga.

One of a tribe of beetles (Xylophili) whose larvae live on decayed wood.

Of or pertaining to the xylophilans.

Formed of wood pulp by molds; relating to casts made of wood pulp in molds.

The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also wood burning and poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker.

Any one of a group of quinone compounds obtained respectively by the oxidation of certain xylidine compounds. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.

A derivative of xylene obtained as a white crystalline substance which on exposure in the air becomes red; -- called also betaorcin.

An unfermentable sugar of the pentose class, C5H10O5, formed by the hydrolysis of xylan; wood sugar.

A glucoside found in the poisonous berries of a species of honeysuckle (Lonicera xylosteum), and extracted as a bitter, white, crystalline substance.

Same as Parkesine.

One versed or engaged in xylotomy.

Capable of boring or cutting wood; -- said of many insects.

Art of preparing sections (transverse, tangential, or radial) of wood, esp. by means of a microtome, for microscopic examination.

A genus of marine bivalves closely allied to Teredo, and equally destructive to timber. One species (Xylotrya fimbriata) is very common on the Atlantic coast of the United States.

Any one of three metameric radicals which are characteristic respectively of the three xylenes.

Any one of three metameric radicals, CH2.C6H4.CH2, derived respectively from the three xylenes. Often used adjectively; as, xylylene alcohol.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Xyrideae) of endogenous plants, of which Xyris is the type.

A genus of endogenous herbs with grassy leaves and small yellow flowers in short, scaly-bracted spikes; yellow-eyed grass. There are about seventeen species in the Atlantic United States.

An officer having the superintendence of the xyst.

An instrument for scraping bones.

A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather.

I.

See under Y, n.

Yea.