(a.) Alt. of Cholinic

(a.) Soothing.

(a.) Anglian.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, anil; indigotic; -- applied to an acid formed by the action of nitric acid on indigo.

(a.) Of or derived from anise; as, anisic acid; anisic alcohol.

(a.) Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs.

(a.) Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

(n.) A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.

(n.) An old name for several species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the aorta.

(a.) Not forming an angle.

(a.) Pertaining to Alcaeus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c.

(n.) A kind of verse, so called from Alcaeus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

(a.) Relating to digestion; promoting digestion; digestive; as, peptic sauces.

(a.) Able to digest.

(a.) Pertaining to pepsin; resembling pepsin in its power of digesting or dissolving albuminous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.

(n.) An agent that promotes digestion.

(n.) The digestive organs.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Copts.

(n.) The language of the Copts.

() Alt. of Chymistry

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).

(a.) See Cystic.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the citron or lemon; as, citric acid.

(n.) The corsak.

(a.) Alt. of Cossical

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the maple; as, aceric acid.

(a.) Of a pertaining to vinegar; producing vinegar; producing vinegar; as, acetic fermentation.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.

(a.) Pertaining to exile or banishment, esp. to that of the Jews in Babylon.

(a.) Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.

(n.) A wild prank; a flight of levity, or of gayety and mirth.

(n.) A scene of gayety and mirth, as in lively play, or in dancing; a merrymaking.

(v. i.) To play wild pranks; to play tricks of levity, mirth, and gayety; to indulge in frolicsome play; to sport.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thymus gland.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, thyme; as, thymic acid.

(a.) Heliacal.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing, ozone.

(n.) See Chebacco.

(n.) A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.

(n.) A chemist; an alchemist.

(n.) A solution of chloride of lime.

(a.) Chemical.

(a.) Relating to the abdomen, or to the cavity of the abdomen.

(n.) A genus of algae. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid (C4H5N3O4) not known in the free state, but obtained, in combination with its salts, by a slow oxidation of uric acid, to which it is related.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid NH2.C2O2.HO obtained as a fine crystalline powder, intermediate between oxalic acid and oxamide. Its ammonium salt is obtained by boiling oxamide with ammonia.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, sorrel, or oxalis; specifically, designating an acid found in, and characteristic of, oxalis, and also certain plant of the Buckwheat family.

(a.) Alt. of Statical

(a.) Alt. of Sophical

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the rowan tree, or sorb; specifically, designating an acid, C/H/CO/H, of the acetylene series, found in the unripe berries of this tree, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

(n.) That part of any work in the early manuscripts and typography which was colored red, to distinguish it from other portions.

(n.) A titlepage, or part of it, especially that giving the date and place of printing; also, the initial letters, etc., when printed in red.

(n.) The title of a statute; -- so called as being anciently written in red letters.

(n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) Hence, that which is established or settled, as by authority; a thing definitely settled or fixed.

(v. t.) To adorn ith red; to redden; to rubricate.

(a.) Alt. of Rubrical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amyl; as, amylic ether.

(a.) Pertaining to a remote ancestor, or to atavism.

(a.) Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements.

(a.) Alt. of Atomical

(a.) Of or pertaining to bards, or their poetry.

(a.) Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

(a.) Unaccented; as, an atonic syllable.

(a.) Destitute of tone vocality; surd.

(n.) A word that has no accent.

(n.) An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing.

(n.) A remedy capable of allaying organic excitement or irritation.

(a.) Relating to life; as, the biotic principle.

(a.) Alt. of Atypical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians.

(n.) The language of the Arabians.

(a.) Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.

(n.) The arctic circle.

(n.) A warm waterproof overshoe.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Altai, a mountain chain in Central Asia.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or connected with, quinine and related compounds; specifically, designating a nonnitrogenous acid obtained from cinchona bark, coffee, beans, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

() Pertaining to, or relieving, a cough.

(n.) A medicine for relieving coughs.

(a.) Confined to no zone or region; not local.

(a.) Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Belgae, a German tribe who anciently possessed the country between the Rhine, the Seine, and the ocean.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Netherlands or to Belgium.

(a.) Alt. of Bellical

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the silkworm; as, bombic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cadmium; as, cadmic sulphide.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.

(a.) Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.

(a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.

(a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.

(n.) An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.

(n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.

(a.) Alt. of Mystical

(n.) One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.

(n.) See Nicker tree.

(n.) The territory ruled by a bey.

(a.) Same as Rhaetic.

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

(a.) Pertaining to rhyme.

(n.) Sumac.

(a.) Relating to the derm or skin.

(a.) Pertaining to the dermis; dermal.

(a.) See Coellac.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.

(n.) The language of the Celts.

(n.) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.

(n.) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, bromine; -- said of those compounds of bromine in which this element has a valence of five, or the next to its highest; as, bromic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Scenical

(a.) Alt. of Mythical

(a.) Alt. of Sinaitic

(n.) A kind of spice used in the East Indies, consisting of the bark of a species of Cinnamomum.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, nonane; as, nonoic acid, which is also called pelargonic acid. Cf. Pelargonic.

(n.) Alt. of Oomiak

(a.) Relating to Adonis, famed for his beauty.

(n.) An Adonic verse.

(n.) One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of three metameric acids, CH3.C6H4.CO2H, which are related to toluene and analogous to benzoic acids. They are white crystalline substances, and are called respectively orthotoluic acid, metatoluic acid, and paratoluic acid.

(n.) An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling brass, and containing about 84 per cent of copper; -- called also German, / Dutch, brass. It is very malleable and ductile, and when beaten into thin leaves is sometimes called Dutch metal. The addition of arsenic makes white tombac.

(a.) Alt. of Tactical

(n.) See Tactics.

(n.) A kind of French brandy, so called from the town of Cognac.

(n.) See Tombac.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tan; derived from, or resembling, tan; as, tannic acid.

(n.) Same as Tenrec.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum.

(n.) Guaiacum.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, an epode.

(a.) Alt. of Erotical

(n.) An amorous composition or poem.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, a genus of cruciferous Mediterranean herbs (Eruca or Brassica); as, erucic acid, a fatty acid resembling oleic acid, and found in colza oil, mustard oil, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, soda.

(a.) Of the seventh degree or order.

(n.) A quantic of the seventh degree.

(a.) Alt. of Septical

(n.) A substance that promotes putrefaction.

(a.) Of or relating to modern Greece, and especially to its language.

(n.) The modern Greek language, now usually called by the Greeks Hellenic or Neo-Hellenic.

(a.) Alt. of Noetical

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitrogen; specifically, designating any one of those compounds in which, as contrasted with nitrous compounds, the element has a higher valence; as, nitric oxide; nitric acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to capric acid or its derivatives.

(n.) A clerk, a clergyman.

(a.) Same as Clerical.

(n.) One confined to the bed by sickness.

(n.) One who receives baptism on a sick bed.

(n.) A school, or a session of a school or class, in which medicine or surgery is taught by the examination and treatment of patients in the presence of the pupils.

(v. i.) Of or pertaining to a bed, especially, a sick bed.

(v. i.) Of or pertaining to a clinic, or to the study of disease in the living subject.

(a.) Having an irregular, convulsive motion.

(n.) Alt. of Sarlyk

(a.) Of or pertaining to cheese; as, caseic acid.

(a.) Conveying impressions from the surface of the body to the spinal cord; -- said of certain nerves. Opposed to exodic.

(a.) See Sothic.

(n.) A poetic foot, composed of one short syllable between two long ones (- / -).

(n.) One skilled in judging of the merits of literary or artistic works; a connoisseur; an adept; hence, one who examines literary or artistic works, etc., and passes judgment upon them; a reviewer.

(n.) One who passes a rigorous or captious judgment; one who censures or finds fault; a harsh examiner or judge; a caviler; a carper.

(n.) The art of criticism.

(n.) An act of criticism; a critique.

(a.) Of or pertaining to critics or criticism; critical.

(v. i.) To criticise; to play the critic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a chorus.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its lowest proportion.

(a.) Pertaining to the number two; of two parts or elements.

(a.) Of or pertaining to odyle; odic; as, odylic force.

(a.) Alt. of Gymnical

(n.) Athletic exercise.

(a.) See Vehmic.

(a.) Pertaining to the blood; hemal.

(n.) A small, African, foxlike animal (Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.

(a.) Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted.

(a.) Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc.

(n.) A myotic agent.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps.

(n.) The language of the Lapps. See Lappish.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the government which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the European bay or laurel (Laurus nobilis).

(a.) Alt. of Isatinic

(a.) Relating to Italy or to its people.

(a.) Applied especially to a kind of type in which the letters do not stand upright, but slope toward the right; -- so called because dedicated to the States of Italy by the inventor, Aldus Manutius, about the year 1500.

(n.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see Italic, a., 2.); -- often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author's. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also, collectively, Italic letters.

(a.) Of or relating to the Ural Mountains.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the heavens; celestial; astronomical.

(a.) Pertaining to, resembling, or containing uranium; specifically, designating those compounds in which uranium has a valence relatively higher than in uranous compounds.

() Of or containing urates; as, uratic calculi.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the urine; diuretic; urinary; as, uretic medicine.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH3C6H3(CO2H)2, obtained as a white crystalline substance by the partial oxidation of mesitylene; -- called also mesitic acid.

(a.) Relieving weariness; restorative.

(n.) A plant of the genus Allium (A. sativum is the cultivated variety), having a bulbous root, a very strong smell, and an acrid, pungent taste. Each root is composed of several lesser bulbs, called cloves of garlic, inclosed in a common membranous coat, and easily separable.

(n.) A kind of jig or farce.

(a.) Slavonic.

(n.) The group of allied languages spoken by the Slavs.

(a.) Dietetic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sothis, the Egyptian name for the Dog Star; taking its name from the Dog Star; canicular.

(a.) Antimonic; -- used with reference to certain compounds of antimony.

(a.) Of the sixth degree or order.

(n.) A quantic of the sixth degree.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, cyanogen.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a blue color.

(a.) Alt. of Cyclical

(a.) Alt. of Deifical

(a.) Welsh.

(n.) The Welsh language.

(a.) Having the form of, or living in, a cyst; as, the cystic entozoa.

(a.) Containing cysts; cystose; as, cystic sarcoma.

(a.) Pertaining to, or contained in, a cyst; esp., pertaining to, or contained in, either the urinary bladder or the gall bladder.

(a.) Deltaic.

(a.) Same as Columbic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoon has been found.

(a.) Belonging to earth; terrestrial.

(a.) Conducting influences from the spinal cord outward; -- said of the motor or efferent nerves. Opposed to esodic.

(a.) Introduced from a foreign country; not native; extraneous; foreign; as, an exotic plant; an exotic term or word.

(n.) Anything of foreign origin; something not of native growth, as a plant, a word, a custom.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.

(a.) Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge its contents by the mouth.

(n.) A medicine which causes vomiting.

(n.) The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic.

(a.) Containing a high percentage of silica; -- opposed to basic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Gael, esp. to the Celtic Highlanders of Scotland; as, the Gaelic language.

(n.) The language of the Gaels, esp. of the Highlanders of Scotland. It is a branch of the Celtic.

(n.) The structure of anything; the manner in which the parts of a thing are united; workmanship; texture; make; as cloth of a beautiful fabric.

(n.) That which is fabricated

(n.) Framework; structure; edifice; building.

(n.) Cloth of any kind that is woven or knit from fibers, either vegetable or animal; manufactured cloth; as, silks or other fabrics.

(n.) The act of constructing; construction.

(n.) Any system or structure consisting of connected parts; as, the fabric of the universe.

(v. t.) To frame; to build; to construct.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gallium.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, galls, nutgalls, and the like.

(a.) Pertaining to Gaul or France; Gallican.

(a.) Pertaining to deeds or feats of arms; legendary.

(a.) Relating to bodily motion; consisting of gestures; -- said especially with reference to dancing.

(a.) Alt. of Ethnical

(n.) A heathen; a pagan.

(a.) Relating to the etymon; as, an etymic word.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ants; as, formic acid; in an extended sense, pertaining to, or derived from, formic acid; as, formic ether.

(a.) Alt. of Eddic

(a.) Of or pertaining to Eden; paradisaic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a journey or traveling.

(a.) Alt. of Wendish

(n.) The language of the Wends.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, sugar; as, glucic acid.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.

(n.) One of the two small circles of the celestial sphere, situated on each side of the equator, at a distance of 23¡ 28/, and parallel to it, which the sun just reaches at its greatest declination north or south, and from which it turns again toward the equator, the northern circle being called the Tropic of Cancer, and the southern the Tropic of Capricorn, from the names of the two signs at which they touch the ecliptic.

(n.) One of the two parallels of terrestrial latitude corresponding to the celestial tropics, and called by the same names.

(n.) The region lying between these parallels of latitude, or near them on either side.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tropics; tropical.

(a.) Alt. of Gnomical

(a.) Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.

(a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, iambics; as, an iambic verse; iambic meter. See Lambus.

(n.) An iambic foot; an iambus.

(n.) A verse composed of iambic feet.

(n.) A satirical poem (such poems having been anciently written in iambic verse); a satire; a lampoon.

(a.) Alt. of Iatrical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the holly (Ilex), and allied plants; as, ilicic acid.

(n.) An abbreviation of Ipecacuanha, and in more frequent use.

(a.) Iranian.

(a.) Alt. of Irenical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the iris of the eye.

(a.) Of or pertaining to iridium; -- said specifically of those compounds in which iridium has a relatively high valence.

(a.) Ironical.

(a.) Alt. of Judaical

(n.) A kind of low-hung cab.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.

(a.) Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.

(a.) Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7CO2H (called also methyl crotonic acid), homologous with crotonic acid, and obtained from croton oil (from Croton Tiglium) as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing iron. Specifically (Chem.), denoting those compounds in which iron has a higher valence than in the ferrous compounds; as, ferric oxide; ferric acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fatty or oily substances; -- applied to certain acids obtained from fats by the action of nitric acid.

(n.) A small insectivore (Centetes ecaudatus), native of Madagascar, but introduced also into the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius; -- called also tanrec. The name is applied to other allied genera. See Tendrac.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, terbium; also, designating certain of its compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Finns.

(a.) Alt. of Tetrical

(a.) Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic exploits; fistic heroes.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mutton suet; -- applied by Chevreul to an oily acid which was obtained from mutton suet, and to which he attributed the peculiar taste and smell of that substance. The substance has also been called hircin.

(a.) See Mellitic.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, yttrium.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.

(n.) An imaginary belt in the heavens, 16¡ or 18¡ broad, in the middle of which is the ecliptic, or sun's path. It comprises the twelve constellations, which one constituted, and from which were named, the twelve signs of the zodiac.

(n.) A figure representing the signs, symbols, and constellations of the zodiac.

(n.) A girdle; a belt.

(a.) Of or pertaining to animals; obtained from animal substances.

(a.) Containing the remains of organized bodies; -- said of rock or soil.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.

(a.) Relating to the production of light by the lower animals.

(n.) The art of healing diseases; the science of medicine; the theory or practice of medicine.

(n.) A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

(n.) Specifically, a medicine that purges; a cathartic.

(n.) A physician.

(v. t.) To treat with physic or medicine; to administer medicine to, esp. a cathartic; to operate on as a cathartic; to purge.

(v. t.) To work on as a remedy; to heal; to cure.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pontus, Euxine, or Black Sea.

(n.) A kind of oil cake prepared from the cocoanut. See Oil cake, under Cake.

(a. & n.) Same as Celtic, a. & n.

(v.) Formerly, an entertainment at which each person contributed some dish to a common table; now, an excursion or pleasure party in which the members partake of a collation or repast (usually in the open air, and from food carried by themselves).

(v. i.) To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a strong organic acid (called picric acid), intensely bitter.

(a.) Alt. of Tragical

(n.) A writer of tragedy.

(n.) A tragedy; a tragic drama.

(a.) Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.

(n.) The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.

(n.) A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.

(n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2.

(a.) Turkish.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, pine or its products; specifically, designating an acid called also abeitic acid, which is the chief ingredient of common resin (obtained from Pinus sylvestris, and other species).

(a.) Alt. of Adamical

(n.) An officer of government, invested with different powers in different countries; a magistrate.

(n.) An agent of a corporation, or of any body of men engaged in a business enterprise; an advocate or patron; an assignee.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Syria, or its language; as, the Syriac version of the Pentateuch.

(n.) The language of Syria; especially, the ancient language of that country.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a syrt; resembling syrt, or quicksand.

(a.) Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces; gravic attraction.

(a.) Aeolian, 1; as, the Aeolic dialect; the Aeolic mode.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, hydrogen; as, hydric oxide.

(a.) Relating to hymns, or sacred lyrics.

(a.) Backward.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the people; belonging to the people; relating to, or affecting, a nation, state, or community; -- opposed to private; as, the public treasury.

(a.) Open to the knowledge or view of all; general; common; notorious; as, public report; public scandal.

(a.) Open to common or general use; as, a public road; a public house.

(n.) The general body of mankind, or of a nation, state, or community; the people, indefinitely; as, the American public; also, a particular body or aggregation of people; as, an author's public.

(n.) A public house; an inn.

(a.) Of or pertaining to psora.

(a.) Making one or unity; unifying.

(n.) A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree.

(n.) A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

(n.) A kind of cement composed of burnt clay, litharge, and linseed oil, used for plastering walls, etc.

(a.) Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, weld (Reseda luteola).

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid resembling luteolin, but obtained from the flowers of Euphorbia cyparissias.

(a.) Alt. of Lubrical

(a.) Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic.

(n.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.

(a.) Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

(n.) A raving lunatic; a madman.

(n.) An alembic; a still.

(v. t.) To distill.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the plague or contagious disorders.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis.

(a.) Pure; genuine.

(a.) Habitual; constitutional; pertaining especially to slow waste of animal tissue, as in consumption; as, a hectic type in disease; a hectic flush.

(a.) In a hectic condition; having hectic fever; consumptive; as, a hectic patient.

(n.) Hectic fever.

(n.) A hectic flush.

(a.) Of or pertaining to thorium; designating the compounds of thorium.

(a.) Nautical.

(a.) Pertaining to Orpheus; Orphean; as, Orphic hymns.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.

(n.) The language of the Letts; Lettish.

(n.) The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian.

(a.) Alt. of Leucinic

(a.) Having the nature and qualities of glass; glasslike; -- distinguished from ceramic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to stone; as, lithic architecture.

(a.) Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) in the bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis.

(n.) A medicine which tends to prevent stone in the bladder.

(a.) Pertaining to or denoting lithium or some of its compounds.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid obtained from a lichen (Cetraria vulpina) as a yellow or red crystalline substance which on decomposition yields pulvinic acid.

(n.) A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.

(a.) Passive; suffering.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, octane; -- used specifically, to designate any one of a group of acids, the most important of which is called caprylic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Odin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the castor-oil plant (Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi); -- formerly used to designate an acid now called ricinoleic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or produced by, a lamp; -- formerly said of a supposed acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Lamaism.

(a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc.

(a.) Pertaining to lac, or produced from it; as, laccic acid.

(a & n.) See Cymric, a. & n.

(n.) A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also mosaic work.

(n.) A picture or design made in mosaic; an article decorated in mosaic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Moses, the leader of the Israelites, or established through his agency; as, the Mosaic law, rites, or institutions.

(n.) Alt. of Mostick

(n.) Alt. of Mistico

(n.) Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

(a.) Of or relating to Persia.

(n.) The Persian language.

(a.) Alt. of Poetical

(a.) Of, pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, phenyl or phenol.