(distilleries) A certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it, and later by more accurate meters.

Melia azedarach, a deciduous or semi-evergreen tree with poisonous fruit, native to India, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia.

sensitive fern

The moulding screwed to the inner side of a window frame, on the face of the pulley stile, completing the groove in which the inner sash is to slide.

plural of beaded lacewing

Any insect of the family Berothidae.

(architecture) A bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, especially for protecting an angle of a wall.

jequirity bean (Abrus precatorius)

Any venomous lizard of family Helodermatidae. / Especially, a species of venomous lizard found principally in Mexico and southern Guatemala, Heloderma horridum.

plural of beaded lizard