(a.) Rising or swelling into a spherical or rounded form; regularly protuberant or bulging; -- said of a spherical surface or curved line when viewed from without, in opposition to concave.

(n.) A convex body or surface.

(n.) A flowing towards; that which flows to; as, an afflux of blood to the head.

(v. t. & i.) To mix or mingle together; to blend.

(n.) Bark, as of a tree; hence, an outer covering.

(n.) Bark; rind; specifically, cinchona bark.

(n.) The outer or superficial part of an organ; as, the cortex or gray exterior substance of the brain.

(n.) The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.

(n.) A crafty fox.

(v. t.) To context.

(n.) The womb.

(n.) Hence, that which gives form or origin to anything

(n.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type.

(n.) The earthy or stony substance in which metallic ores or crystallized minerals are found; the gangue.

(n.) The five simple colors, black, white, blue, red, and yellow, of which all the rest are composed.

(n.) The lifeless portion of tissue, either animal or vegetable, situated between the cells; the intercellular substance.

(n.) A rectangular arrangement of symbols in rows and columns. The symbols may express quantities or operations.

(n.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla.

(n.) A delicate trailing plant (Myrsiphyllum asparagoides) much used for decoration. It is a native of the Cape of Good Hope.

(pl. ) of Bijou

(n.) A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

(n.) A genus of moths, which includes the silkworm moth. See Silkworm.

(a.) Directed back; attended by reflection; retroactive; introspective.

(a.) Produced in reaction, in resistance, or in return.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitation without the necessary intervention of consciousness.

(n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

(n.) An involuntary movement produced by reflex action.

(v. t.) To reflect.

(v. t.) To bend back; to turn back.

(a.) Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.

(n.) A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.

(v. t.) To fix surely; to appoint.

(pl. ) of Boyau

(n.) The stem of a tree., esp. a stem without a branch, as of a palm or a tree fern; also, the perennial rootstock of an herbaceous plant.

(n.) The embryo produced directly from the egg in a metagenetic series, especially the larva of a tapeworm or other parasitic worm. See Illust. of Echinococcus.

(n.) One of the Scolecida.

(n.) The neck; also, the necklike portion of any part, as of the womb. See Illust. of Bird.

(v. t.) To fix; to fasten.

(v. t.) To connect.

(n.) A genus of fishes, common on the Atlantic coast, including the yellow or golden mackerel.

(v. i.) Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

(v. i.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.

(v. i.) The highest point; the greatest degree.

(n.) A kind of minium, or red lead, made by calcining carbonate of lead, but inferior to true minium.

(n.) See Sandix.

(a.) Double; twofold.

(n.) Alt. of Darnic

(v. t.) To bend; to cause to become curved; to make crooked; to deflect.

(n.) The act of flowing in; as, an influx of light.

(n.) A coming in; infusion; intromission; introduction; importation in abundance; also, that which flows or comes in; as, a great influx of goods into a country, or an influx of gold and silver.

(n.) Influence; power.

(n.) A genus of birds including the common European partridge. Formerly the word was used in a much wider sense to include many allied genera.

(n.) The expanded upper end of the windpipe or trachea, connected with the hyoid bone or cartilage. It contains the vocal cords, which produce the voice by their vibrations, when they are stretched and a current of air passes between them. The larynx is connected with the pharynx by an opening, the glottis, which, in mammals, is protected by a lidlike epiglottis.

(n.) A female guardian; a tutoress.

(a.) Intricate; entangled; complicated; complex.

(n.) A pustular eruptive disease of the cow, which, when communicated to the human system, as by vaccination, protects from the smallpox; vaccinia; -- called also kinepox, cowpock, and kinepock.

(n.) A fleshy spike of flowers, usually inclosed in a leaf called a spathe.

(n.) A special organ of the nautilus, due to a modification of the posterior tentacles.

(n.) In Egyptian art, an image of granite or porphyry, having a human head, or the head of a ram or of a hawk, upon the wingless body of a lion.

(n.) On Greek art and mythology, a she-monster, usually represented as having the winged body of a lion, and the face and breast of a young woman.

(n.) Hence: A person of enigmatical character and purposes, especially in politics and diplomacy.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of large moths of the family Sphingidae; -- called also hawk moth.

(n.) The Guinea, or sphinx, baboon (Cynocephalus sphinx).

(n.) Any one of a number of similar complex resins obtained from the bark of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

(n.) Downward flow.

(n.) An edible European marine fish (Sparus dentex, or Dentex vulgaris) of the family Percidae.

(n.) A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

(n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail.

(n.) A pair of shears.

(n.) An arch or fold; as, the fornix, or vault, of the cranium; the fornix, or reflection, of the conjuctiva.

(n.) Esp., two longitudinal bands of white nervous tissue beneath the lateral ventricles of the brain.

(n.) The act or process of flowing out, or issuing forth; effusion; outflow; as, the efflux of matter from an ulcer; the efflux of men's piety.

(n.) That which flows out; emanation; effluence.

(v. i.) To run out; to flow forth; to pass away.

(n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

(n.) The top, or crown, of the head.

(n.) The zenith, or the point of the heavens directly overhead.

(n.) The point in any figure opposite to, and farthest from, the base; the terminating point of some particular line or lines in a figure or a curve; the top, or the point opposite the base.

(n.) A genus of shrubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.

(n.) Same as Storax.

(v. t.) To subjoin; to subnect.

(n.) A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.

(n.) A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a.

(v. t.) To add or annex to the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.

(n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the hind limb, corresponding to the pollux in the fore limb; the great toe; the hind toe of birds.

(n.) The cicada.

(n.) A genus of small grasshoppers.

(n.) A box for a hat.

(v. t.) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.

(v. t.) To set or appoint beforehand; to settle or establish antecedently.

(n.) That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllables combined or united with the beginning of a word to modify its signification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.

(n.) The first, or preaxial, digit of the fore limb, corresponding to the hallux in the hind limb; the thumb. In birds, the pollex is the joint which bears the bastard wing.

(n.) A fixed star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Gemini. Cf. 3d Castor.

(n.) Same as Pollucite.

(n.) Alt. of Pickaxe

(n.) Any one of numerous species of birds belonging to Turnix or Hemipodius and allied genera of the family Turnicidae. These birds resemble quails and partridges in general appearance and in some of their habits, but differ in important anatomical characteristics. The hind toe is usually lacking. They are found in Asia, Africa, Southern Europe, the East Indian Islands, and esp. in Australia and adjacent islands, where they are called quails (see Quail, n., 3.). See Turnicimorphae.

(n.) An additional or extra tax.

(v. t.) To impose an additional tax on.

(n.) Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.

(n.) That part of grammar which treats of the construction of sentences; the due arrangement of words in sentences in their necessary relations, according to established usage in any language.

(n.) A wind instrument made of reeds tied together; -- called also pandean pipes.

(n.) The lower larynx in birds.

(a.) Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with reference to discourse written or spoken; as, a prolix oration; a prolix poem; a prolix sermon.

(a.) Indulging in protracted discourse; tedious; wearisome; -- applied to a speaker or writer.

(n.) The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food.

(n.) The lore of a bird.

(n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.

(n.) The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which the heart and lungs are situated; the chest.

(n.) The middle region of the body of an insect, or that region which bears the legs and wings. It is composed of three united somites, each of which is composed of several distinct parts. See Illust. in Appendix. and Illust. of Coleoptera.

(n.) The second, or middle, region of the body of a crustacean, arachnid, or other articulate animal. In the case of decapod Crustacea, some writers include under the term thorax only the three segments bearing the maxillipeds; others include also the five segments bearing the legs. See Illust. in Appendix.

(n.) A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.

(n.) See Cerumen.

(n.) A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.

(n.) A mass of fluid, especially of a liquid, having a whirling or circular motion tending to form a cavity or vacuum in the center of the circle, and to draw in towards the center bodies subject to its action; the form assumed by a fluid in such motion; a whirlpool; an eddy.

(n.) A supposed collection of particles of very subtile matter, endowed with a rapid rotary motion around an axis which was also the axis of a sun or a planet. Descartes attempted to account for the formation of the universe, and the movements of the bodies composing it, by a theory of vortices.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of small Turbellaria belonging to Vortex and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) The strong ligament of the back of the neck in quadrupeds. It connects the back of the skull with dorsal spines of the cervical vertebrae, and helps to support the head. Called also paxywaxy and packwax.

(v. t.) To mix; to mingle.

(n.) A bird fabled to exist single, to be consumed by fire by its own act, and to rise again from its ashes. Hence, an emblem of immortality.

(n.) A southern constellation.

(n.) A marvelous person or thing.

(n.) Alt. of Poleaxe