(a.) African.

(n.) Africa.

(a.) Old; antique.

(a.)

(a.) Odd; fantastic; fanciful; grotesque; ludicrous.

(n.) A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.

(n.) An odd imagery, device, or tracery; a fantastic figure.

(n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.

(n.) A grotesque representation.

(n.) An antimask.

(v. t.) To make appear like a buffoon.

(v. i.) To perform antics.

(n.) The venomous asp.

(n.) A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.

(n.) A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

(n.) A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.

(a.) Relating to comedy, as distinct from tragedy.

(a.) Causing mirth; ludicrous.

(n.) A comedian.

(a.) Relating to, or derived from, a city or citizen; relating to man as a member of society, or to civil affairs.

(a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic.

(a.) By extension: A sudden widespread fright or apprehension concerning financial affairs.

(n.) A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm, obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera.

(a.) Of or pertaining to colic; affecting the bowels.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the colon; as, the colic arteries.

(a.) Alt. of Lyrical

(n.) A lyric poem; a lyrical composition.

(n.) A composer of lyric poems.

(n.) A verse of the kind usually employed in lyric poetry; -- used chiefly in the plural.

(n.) The words of a song.

(a.) Of or pertaining to barium; as, baric oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to weight, esp. to the weight or pressure of the atmosphere as measured by the barometer.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its principal city; marked by such qualities as were characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.

(a.) A low story above the main order or orders of a facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced in the 17th century. Hence:

(a.) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

(a.) An Athenian; an Athenian author.

(a.) Pertaining to a royal court.

(n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

(a.) Of or pertaining to gold.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.

(a.) Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.

(a.) Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519.

(n.) One of the Aztec race or people.

(n.) The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue (Ruta); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, boron.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called chrysophanic acid) found in rhubarb (Rheum).

(n.) The white indris of Madagascar. It is regarded by the natives as sacred.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient Carthaginians.

(a.) Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a whale.

(a.) Alt. of Tisical

(n.) Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.

(a.) Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

(a.) Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

(a.) Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.

(n.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

(n.) The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

(n.) A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.

(n.) Same as Guaiac.

(a.) Alt. of Conical

(n.) A conic section.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sodium; containing sodium.

(n.) That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion; a remnant.

(n.) The body from which the soul has departed; a corpse; especially, the body, or some part of the body, of a deceased saint or martyr; -- usually in the plural when referring to the whole body.

(n.) Hence, a memorial; anything preserved in remembrance; as, relics of youthful days or friendships.

(n.) An instrument formerly used which somewhat resembled the violin, having three strings, and being played with a bow.

(n.) A contemptuous term applied to an old woman.

(n.) A method of notation for all spoken sounds, proposed by Mr. Sweet; -- so called because it is based on the common Roman-letter alphabet. It is like the palaeotype of Mr. Ellis in the general plan, but simpler.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dew; resembling dew; dewy.

(a.) Customary; ordinary; -- applied to the usual English spelling, in distinction from strictly phonetic methods.

(n.) Nomic spelling.

(n.) A sort of cotton so short and fine that it can not be spun, used in the East Indies to line palanquins, to make mattresses, etc.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks, or to the Salic law so called.

(n.) A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleic acid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glyceryl in the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils, such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid is crystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14/ C.

(n.) A gold coin of ancient Persia, weighing usually a little more than 128 grains, and bearing on one side the figure of an archer.

(n.) A silver coin of about 86 grains, having the figure of an archer, and hence, in modern times, called a daric.

(n.) Any very pure gold coin.

(a.) Alt. of Cubical

(n.) A curve of the third degree.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the older characters of the Arabic language.

(a.) See Cuming.

(a.) Alt. of Ethical

(n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.

(n.) A treatise on forms of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle.

(n.) An argument or reason.

(n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.

(n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc.

(a.) Topical.

(a.) Alt. of Adunque

(n.) The calcined ashes of any coarse seaweed used for the manufacture of soda and iodine; also, the seaweed itself; fucus; wrack.

(a.) See Lavatic.

(a.) Pertaining to the goddess Isis; as, Isiac mysteries.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid obtained, as a yellow crystalline substance, from certain genera of lichens (Usnea, Parmelia, etc.).

(n.) See Sirocco.

(a.) Pertaining to Doris, in ancient Greece, or to the Dorians; as, the Doric dialect.

(a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of the three orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as second of the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.

(a.) Of or relating to one of the ancient Greek musical modes or keys. Its character was adapted both to religions occasions and to war.

(n.) The Doric dialect.

(n.) A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

(n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain.

(n.) Alt. of Stoical

(a.) Alt. of Cynical

(n.) One of a sect or school of philosophers founded by Antisthenes, and of whom Diogenes was a disciple. The first Cynics were noted for austere lives and their scorn for social customs and current philosophical opinions. Hence the term Cynic symbolized, in the popular judgment, moroseness, and contempt for the views of others.

(n.) One who holds views resembling those of the Cynics; a snarler; a misanthrope; particularly, a person who believes that human conduct is directed, either consciously or unconsciously, wholly by self-interest or self-indulgence, and that appearances to the contrary are superficial and untrustworthy.

(a. & n.) See Aeolic.

(a.) Funicular.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

(a.) Relating to the Eddas; resembling the Eddas.

(a.) A silver coin of France, and since 1795 the unit of the French monetary system. It has been adopted by Belgium and Swizerland. It is equivalent to about nineteen cents, or ten pence, and is divided into 100 centimes.

(a.) Pertaining to Troy; Trojan.

(n.) Alt. of Sumach

(n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.

(a.) Medical.

(n.) A class of claret wines, including several varieties, from the district of Medoc in the department of Gironde.

(a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, a blow; sudden; abrupt.

(a.) Pertaining to the ileum.

(a.) See Iliac, 1.

(a.) Pertaining to ancient Ilium, or Troy.

(a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ilium, or dorsal bone of the pelvis; as, the iliac artery.

(a.) See Ileac, 1.

(a.) to, or containing, iodine; specif., denoting those compounds in which it has a relatively high valence; as, iodic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Ionia or the Ionians.

(a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an ion; composed of ions.

(n.) A foot consisting of four syllables: either two long and two short, -- that is, a spondee and a pyrrhic, in which case it is called the greater Ionic; or two short and two long, -- that is, a pyrrhic and a spondee, in which case it is called the smaller Ionic.

(n.) A verse or meter composed or consisting of Ionic feet.

(n.) The Ionic dialect; as, the Homeric Ionic.

(n.) Ionic type.

(a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Magical

(a.) Denoting the final end or purpose, as distinguished from ecbatic. See Ecbatic.

(n.) Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

(v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

(n.) A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

() Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.

(n.) See Xebec.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pine; obtained from the pine; formerly, designating an acid which is the chief constituent of common resin, -- now called abietic, or sylvic, acid.

(n.) An under-garment worn by the ancient Romans of both sexes. It was made with or without sleeves, reached to or below the knees, and was confined at the waist by a girdle.

(n.) Any similar garment worm by ancient or Oriental peoples; also, a common name for various styles of loose-fitting under-garments and over-garments worn in modern times by Europeans and others.

(n.) Same as Tunicle.

(n.) A membrane, or layer of tissue, especially when enveloping an organ or part, as the eye.

(n.) A natural covering; an integument; as, the tunic of a seed.

(n.) See Mantle, n., 3 (a).

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vegetable mold; as, humic acid. See Humin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to matter; material; corporeal; as, hylic influences.

(a.) The organ of sight; an eye.

(a.) An eyeglass.

(a.) Alt. of Optical

(a.) Extreme or sudden and causeless; unreasonable; -- said of fear or fright; as, panic fear, terror, alarm.

(n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

(n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

(n.) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.

(n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

(n.) Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

(n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the external organs of generation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pubis.

(a.) Alt. of Toxical

(n.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.

(n.) A shrub of the genus Syringa. There are six species, natives of Europe and Asia. Syringa vulgaris, the common lilac, and S. Persica, the Persian lilac, are frequently cultivated for the fragrance and beauty of their purplish or white flowers. In the British colonies various other shrubs have this name.

(n.) A light purplish color like that of the flower of the purplish lilac.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

(n.) The science or art of exact reasoning, or of pure and formal thought, or of the laws according to which the processes of pure thinking should be conducted; the science of the formation and application of general notions; the science of generalization, judgment, classification, reasoning, and systematic arrangement; correct reasoning.

(n.) A treatise on logic; as, Mill's Logic.

(a.) Alt. of Muticous

(a.) Alt. of Orbical

(a.) Of or pertaining to wine; as, vinic alcohol.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fat. The word was formerly used specifically to designate a supposed acid obtained by the oxidation of oleic acid, tallow, wax, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, osmium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a valence higher than in other lower compounds; as, osmic oxide.

(a.) Pertaining to, or applied to, the language of the Tuscaroras, Iroquois, Wyandots, Winnebagoes, and a part of the Sioux Indians.

(a.) Of the eighth degree or order.

(n.) A quantic of the eighth degree.

(a.) Pertaining to ulmin; designating an acid obtained from ulmin.

(a.) Typical.

(a.) See Cufic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, fermentation; -- formerly, by confusion, used to designate lactic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.

(a.) Alt. of Mimical

(n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.

(v. t.) To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.

(v. t.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

(n.) A small three-masted vessel, with projecting bow stern and convex decks, used in the Mediterranean for transporting merchandise, etc. It carries large square sails, or both. Xebecs were formerly armed and used by corsairs.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.

(a.) See Quinic.