An adder stone is a type of stone, usually glassy, with a naturally occurring hole through it.

Diana Kennedy, in her recipe for the Mexican sausage moronga, calls for two quarts of pig’s blood.

Our forces being landed and ſtationed as I have already mentioned, ſet about erecting a faſchine battery to cannonade the principal fort of the enemy, and in ſomething more than three vveeks, it vvas ready to open.

His peculiar character of shrinker from everything and every one, always retreating into his shell of contemptuous opposition as a snail into his shell, led, perhaps, to his rejection of ordinary phraseology, the simple mode of expression used by the million.