(a.) Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile.

(a.) Easily irritated; irascible; inclined to anger.

(a.) Angry; indicating anger; excited by anger.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, the bile.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a choragus.

(a.) Having unequal oblique axes; as, anorthic crystals.

(a.) Alleviating pain.

(n.) A medicine to alleviate pain; an anodyne.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the windpipe.

(a.) Alt. of Artistical

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

(a.) Checking or preventing suppuration.

(n.) An antipyic medicine.

(a.) Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

(a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.

(a.) Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.

(a.) Alt. of Apagogical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

(a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.

(n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Puristical

(a.) Not plastic or easily molded.

(a.) Characterized by agraphia.

(a.) Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

(a.) Relating to apogamy.

(a.) Of or pertaining to purpura.

(a.) Pertaining to or designating, a nitrogenous acid contained in uric acid. It is not known in the pure state, but forms well-known purple-red compounds (as murexide), whence its name.

(a.) Destroying the appetite, or suspending hunger.

(a.) Pertaining to akinesia.

(a.) Producing or generating pus.

(a.) Alt. of Alchemical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Alcyonaria.

(a.) Skilled in all kinds of work.

(a.) Having short clauses or sentences; brief; concise.

(a.) Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.

(a.) Chylifactive.

(a.) Producing horns; forming horn.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, cinnamon.

(n.) A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.

(a.) Alt. of Cosmetical

(n.) Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as, platinic chloride (PtCl4).

(a.) Having the properties of a narcotic; operating as a narcotic.

(n.) A drug which, in medicinal doses, generally allays morbid susceptibility, relieves pain, and produces sleep; but which, in poisonous doses, produces stupor, coma, or convulsions, and, when given in sufficient quantity, causes death. The best examples are opium (with morphine), belladonna (with atropine), and conium.

(a.) Alt. of Egoistical

(a.) Alt. of Exegetical

(a.) Alt. of Electrical

(n.) A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.

(a.) Alt. of Elenctical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Hellenes, or inhabitants of Greece; Greek; Grecian.

(n.) The dialect, formed with slight variations from the Attic, which prevailed among Greek writers after the time of Alexander.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Helvetii, the ancient inhabitant of the Alps, now Switzerland, or to the modern states and inhabitant of the Alpine regions; as, the Helvetic confederacy; Helvetic states.

(a. & n.) See Pashalic.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, cobalt; -- said especially of those compounds in which cobalt has higher valence; as, cobaltic oxide.

(a.) Alt. of Cherubical

(a.) Chimerical.

(a.) Agglutinant.

(n.) An agglutinant.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producing oxygen.

(a.) Promoting uterine contractions, or parturition.

(n.) An oxytocic medicine or agent.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, oxalic acid and aniline; -- used to designate an acid obtained in white crystalline scales by heating these substances together.

(a.) Of the age of the middle Mesozoic, including, as divided in England and Europe, the Lias, Oolite, and Wealden; -- named from certain rocks of the Jura mountains.

(n.) The Jurassic period or formation; -- called also the Jura.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid related to the ureids, and obtained from parabanic acid as a white silky crystalline substance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the dioptre, or to the metric system of numbering glasses.

(n.) A dioptre. See Dioptre.

(a.) Alt. of Dioptrical

(a.) Pertaining to a diorama.

(a.) Containing diorite.

(a.) Relating to Draco, the Athenian lawgiver; or to the constellation Draco; or to dragon's blood.

(a.) Alt. of Dramatical

(a.) Tending to produce thirst.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form.

(a.) Causing sleep; somniferous.

(a.) pertaining to, or derived from, rubian; specifically, designating an acid called also ruberythrinic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.

(a.) Pertaining to anabasis; as, an anabatic fever.

(a.) Pertaining to anabolism; an anabolic changes, or processes, more or less constructive in their nature.

(a.) Alt. of Anagogical

(a.) Of or belonging to analogy.

(a.) Alt. of Analytical

(a.) Relating to respiration.

(a.) Alt. of Anarchical

(a.) Alt. of Anatomical

(a.) Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

(a.) Without technical or artistic knowledge.

(a.) Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

(a.) Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the isle of Atlantis.

(a.) Descended from Atlas.

(a.) Alt. of Biological

(a.) Relating to the destruction of life.

(a.) Relating to atrophy.

(a.) Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.

(a.) Having the character of bathos.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid now called cyanuric acid. See Cyanuric.

(a.) Prophetic; oracular; pretending to foretell events.

(a.) Without fever; -- applied to days when there is an intermission of fever.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, silver; -- said of certain compounds of silver in which this metal has its lowest proportion; as, argentic chloride.

(a.) Of or containing aluminium; as, aluminic phosphate.

(a.) Tending to cause abortion.

(a.) Alt. of Ammoniacal

(n.) Alt. of Gum ammoniac

(a.) Causing loss of memory.

(n.) One who is curious to know everything that passes; one who knows, or pretends to know, all that is going on.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as a yellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a crystalline acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the amnion; characterized by an amnion; as, the amniotic fluid; the amniotic sac.

(a.) Ammoniac.

(a.) Like Don Quixote; romantic to extravagance; absurdly chivalric; apt to be deluded.

(a.) Alt. of Aromatical

(n.) A plant, drug, or medicine, characterized by a fragrant smell, and usually by a warm, pungent taste, as ginger, cinnamon, spices.

(a.) Alt. of Rabbinical

(n.) The language or dialect of the rabbins; the later Hebrew.

(a.) Produced by, or indicating, a cavity in the lungs, not filled, and giving a sound like that produced by blowing into an empty decanter; as, amphoric respiration or resonance.

(a.) Alt. of Autopsical

(a.) Alt. of Autoptical

(a.) Alt. of Beatifical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia.

(n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of a species of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. racemosa; as, cahincic acid.

(n.) A fragrant wood; agalloch.

(a.) Calciferous. Specifically: (Zool.) of or pertaining to the portion of the oviduct which forms the eggshell in birds and reptiles.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer.

(a.) Alt. of Sabbatical

(a.) Alt. of Balsamical

(a.) Relating to bicycles.

(a.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb; as, rhematic adjectives.

(n.) The doctrine of propositions or sentences.

(n.) The art of composition; especially, elegant composition in prose.

(n.) Oratory; the art of speaking with propriety, elegance, and force.

(n.) Hence, artificial eloquence; fine language or declamation without conviction or earnest feeling.

(n.) Fig. : The power of persuasion or attraction; that which allures or charms.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly called sulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.

(a.) Applied to a line or verse in which each successive word has one more syllable than the preceding.

(a.) Alt. of Rhythmical

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, nickel; specifically, designating compounds in which, as contrasted with the nickelous compounds, the metal has a higher valence; as nickelic oxide.

(a.) Alt. of Dermatine

(a.) See Syenitic.

(a.) Tending to increase the secretion and discharge of urine.

(n.) A medicine with diuretic properties.

(a.) Alt. of Despotical

(a.) A term applied to the centrifugal, or efferent, course of the nervous influence.

(a.) Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.

(a.) Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.

(n.) A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.

(n.) An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

(n.) Turnip-rooted celery, a from of celery with a large globular root, which is used for food.

(a.) Alt. of Pedantical

(a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology.

(a.) Schistose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an optical arrangement for forming images in a darkened room, usually called scioptic ball.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the head. See the Note under Anterior.

(n.) A medicine for headache, or other disorder in the head.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the brain.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss (Cetaria Islandica).

(a.) Of or pertaining to Chaldea.

(n.) The language or dialect of the Chaldeans; Chaldee.

(a.) Not toxic.

(a.) Alt. of Operatical

(n.) One who practices simony, or who buys or sells preferment in the church.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai; given or made at Mount Sinai; as, the Sinaitic law.

(a.) Not centered; without a center.

(a.) Having the nature of, or belonging to, an oophore.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an oophyte.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the umbilicus, or navel.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or denoting, those rays of light which produce chemical effects; actinic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.

(a.) Alt. of Talmudical

(a.) Of or pertaining to tantalum; derived from, or containing, tantalum; specifically, designating any one of a series of acids analogous to nitric acid and the polyacid compounds of phosphorus.

(a.) Alt. of Guelfic

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tartary in Asia, or the Tartars.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tartar; derived from, or resembling, tartar.

(a.) Growing or covering over; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.

(a.) Situated upon or over the colon; -- applied to the region of the abdomen adjacent to the colon.

(a.) Alt. of Epidemical

(n.) An epidemic disease.

(n.) Anything which takes possession of the minds of people as an epidemic does of their bodies; as, an epidemic of terror.

(a.) Related to, resembling, or containing epidote; as, an epidotic granite.

(a.) Alt. of Epilogical

(a.) Relating to the epiploon.

(a.) Producing, or relating to, epipolism or fluorescence.

(a.) Relating to the epipubis.

(a.) Alt. of Episodical

(a.) Same as Eponymous.

(a.) Promoting the skinning over or healing of sores; as, an epulotic ointment.

(n.) An epulotic agent.

(a.) Alt. of Spondaical

(a.) Occuring singly, or apart from other things of the same kind, or in scattered instances; separate; single; as, a sporadic fireball; a sporadic case of disease; a sporadic example of a flower.

(n.) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.

(n.) An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

(a.) Alt. of Eremitical

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, erythrin.

(a.) Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.

(a.) Relating to signs or indications; pertaining to the language of signs, or to language generally as indicating thought.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the signs or symptoms of diseases.

(a.) Same as Semeiotic.

(a.) Alt. of Academical

(n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a Platonist.

(n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an academician.

(a.) Without a heart; as, an acardiac fetus.

(a.) Alt. of Conoidical

(a.) Exciting sensation.

(a.) Alt. of Socratical

(a.) Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking.

(a.) Entertaining ideas and expectations suited to a romance; as, a romantic person; a romantic mind.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets.

(a.) Characterized by strangeness or variety; suggestive of adventure; suited to romance; wild; picturesque; -- applied to scenery; as, a romantic landscape.

(a.) Common weal.

(a.) A state in which the sovereign power resides in the whole body of the people, and is exercised by representatives elected by them; a commonwealth. Cf. Democracy, 2.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.

(a.) See under Capric.

(a.) Pertaining to an acid so called.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid derived from coal tar and other sources; as, carbolic acid (called also phenic acid, and phenol). See Phenol.

(a.) Tending to save or secure safety.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.

(n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.

(n.) A white or yellow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a climate; depending on, or limited by, a climate.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); -- used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or red crystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to sarcode.

(a.) Producing or promoting the growth of flesh.

(n.) A sarcotic medicine.

(a.) Forced; unnatural; insincere; hence, derisive, mocking, malignant, or bitterly sarcastic; -- applied only to a laugh, smile, or some facial semblance of gayety.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a kind of linen made at Colchis.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Sarmatia, or its inhabitants, the ancestors of the Russians and the Poles.

(a.) Alt. of Caryatid

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, columbium or niobium; niobic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the columbo root.

(a.) Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic; -- said of the private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.

(a.) Alt. of Seraphical

(a.) Alt. of Sermonical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cresol, creosote, etc.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling saffron; having the color of saffron; as, croconic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, croconic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.

(a.) Cuneiform.

(n.) Alt. of Esthetics

(a.) Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.

(a.) Affected with shortness of breath; relating to dyspnoea.

(n.) A kind of chronogram.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, an acid so called.

(a.) Of or relating to Ethiopia or the Ethiopians.

(a.) Belonging to courts of judicature or to public discussion and debate; used in legal proceedings, or in public discussions; argumentative; rhetorical; as, forensic eloquence or disputes.

(n.) An exercise in debate; a forensic contest; an argumentative thesis.

(a.) Producing fever.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neat cattle, and probably identical with cresol.

(a.) Of, relating to, or derived from, bile or gall; as, fellinic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red.

(a.) relating to, composed of, or containing, felsite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

(a.) Of, derived from, or designating, a nitrol; as, a nitrolic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a myotome or myotomes.

(a.) In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.

(a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

(a.) Causing horror; frightful.

(a.) Alt. of Myological

(a.) Myotic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a microbe.

(a.) The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.

(a.) A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments.

(a.) Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mechanic or artificer, or to the class of artisans; hence, rude; common; vulgar.

(a.) Base.

(a.) Variolous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Vedas.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, isatin; as, isatic acid, which is also called trioxindol.

(a.) Denoting equal pressure; as, an isobaric line; specifically, of or pertaining to isobars.

(a.) Pertaining to, or noting, equal angles.

(a.) Characterized by isogonism.

(a.) Having the same percentage composition; -- said of two or more different substances which contain the same ingredients in the same proportions by weight, often used with with. Specif.: (a) Polymeric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, but with different molecular weights; as, acetylene and benzine are isomeric (polymeric) with each other in this sense. See Polymeric. (b) Metameric; i. e., having the same elements united in the same proportions by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but which a different structure or arrangement of the ultimate parts; as, ethyl alcohol and methyl ether are isomeric (metameric) with each other in this sense. See Metameric.

(a.) The same, or equal, in law or right; one in kind or origin; analogous; similar.

(a.) Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic and other organic acids.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, Japheth, one of the sons of Noah; as, Japhetic nations, the nations of Europe and Northern Asia; Japhetic languages.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the mineral jargon.

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

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H8N4O6, which is obtained, as a white crystalline substance, by the slow oxidation of uric acid in alkaline solution.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance by the action of ammonia on pyrotartaric acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangetic shark.

(a.) Alt. of Ganglial

(a.) Pertaining to acology.

(a.) Of or pertaining to aconite.

(a.) Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory.

(n.) A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

(a.) Same as Acroamatic.

(n.) The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellular organisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm; endoplasta.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a siphon.

(a.) Alt. of Diabetical

(a.) Alt. of Diabolical

(a.) Having the quality of unloosing or separating.

(a.) Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic.

(n.) A gentle diaphoretic.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, the dochmius.

(a.) Containing two atoms.

(a.) Having two replaceable atoms or radicals.

(a.) Pertaining to the scale of eight tones, the eighth of which is the octave of the first.

(a.) Having two atoms or equivalents of calcium to the molecule.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language.

(a.) Having the property of dichroism; as, a dichroic crystal.

(a.) Having two of the intersections between the three axes oblique. See Crystallization.

(n.) One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.

(a.) Alt. of Dogmatical

(a.) Of or pertaining to dicrotism; as, a dicrotic pulse.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the second expansion of the artery in the dicrotic pulse; as, the dicrotic wave.

(a.) Alt. of Didactical

(n.) A treatise on teaching or education.

(a.) Alt. of Dietetical

(a.) Of or pertaining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a nation considered as a family or home, or to one's own country; intestine; not foreign; as, foreign wars and domestic dissensions.

(a.) Remaining much at home; devoted to home duties or pleasures; as, a domestic man or woman.

(a.) Living in or near the habitations of man; domesticated; tame as distinguished from wild; as, domestic animals.

(a.) Made in one's own house, nation, or country; as, domestic manufactures, wines, etc.

(n.) One who lives in the family of an other, as hired household assistant; a house servant.

(n.) Articles of home manufacture, especially cotton goods.

(a.) Same as Tetragonal.

(a.) Alt. of Spagyrical

(n.) A spagyrist.

(a.) Alt. of Enneatical

(a.) Of or pertaining to a species; characterizing or constituting a species; possessing the peculiar property or properties of a thing which constitute its species, and distinguish it from other things; as, the specific form of an animal or a plant; the specific qualities of a drug; the specific distinction between virtue and vice.

(a.) Specifying; definite, or making definite; limited; precise; discriminating; as, a specific statement.

(a.) Exerting a peculiar influence over any part of the body; preventing or curing disease by a peculiar adaption, and not on general principles; as, quinine is a specific medicine in cases of malaria.

(n.) A specific remedy. See Specific, a., 3.

(a.) Anything having peculiar adaption to the purpose to which it is applied.

(a.) Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

(a.) Relating to objects situated within the eye; esp., relating to the perception of objects in one's own eye.

(a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pulse.

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

(n.) A medicine for diseases of the mouth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Shamanism.

(a.) Relating to cyanosis; affected with cyanosis; as, a cyanotic patient; having the hue caused by cyanosis; as, a cyanotic skin.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, cyanic and uric acids.

(a.) Pertaining to a cyclone.

(a.) Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.

(a.) Pertaining to Cyrenaica, an ancient country of northern Africa, and to Cyrene, its principal city; also, to a school of philosophy founded by Aristippus, a native of Cyrene.

(n.) A native of Cyrenaica; also, a disciple of the school of Aristippus. See Cyrenian, n.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting chiefly or wholly of, dactyls; as, dactylic verses.

(n.) A line consisting chiefly or wholly of dactyls; as, these lines are dactylics.

(n.) Dactylic meters.

(a.) See Demon, Demonic.

(n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia.

(n.) A robe worn on state ocasions, as by English kings at their coronation.

(a.) Alt. of Shemitish

(a.) Alt. of Demoniacal

(n.) A human being possessed by a demon or evil spirit; one whose faculties are directly controlled by a demon.

(n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists who maintain that the demons or devils will finally be saved.

(a.) Afflicting animals; -- used of a disease affecting the animals of a district. It corresponds to an endemic disease among men.

(a.) Of or pertaining to eophytes.

(a.) Inductive.

(a.) Bestowing praise; eulogistic; laudatory.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.

(a.) Pertaining to laughter; used in laughing.

(a.) Gelseminic.

(a.) Alt. of Geodesical

(n.) A geodetic line or curve.

(a.) Alt. of Geodetical

(a.) Alt. of Geogonical

(a.) Alt. of Geological

(a.) Alt. of Geoponical

(a.) Alt. of Elliptical

(a.) Alt. of Exoterical

(a.) Fulsome.

(a.) Alt. of Emphatical

(n.) The coloring matter of fustet.

(a.) Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.

(a.) Producing acidity; converting into an acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to that division of the Celtic languages, which includes the Irish, Gaelic, and Manx.

(a.) Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.

(a.) Belonging to, or used in, a country; native; domestic; popular; common; -- said especially of the written characters employed by the common people of ancient Egypt, in distinction from the hieroglyphics. See Demotic.

(v. i.) Alt. of Enclitical

(n.) A word which is joined to another so closely as to lose its proper accent, as the pronoun thee in prithee (pray thee).

(a.) Alt. of Encrinital

(a.) Alt. of Encyclical

(n.) Alt. of Encyclical

(a.) Acting through the skin, or by direct application to the skin.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents.

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

(n.) A monk.

(a.) Alt. of Monastical

(a.) See Mongolian.

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

(n.) Of or pertaining to Germany; as, the Germanic confederacy.

(n.) Teutonic.

(a.) Of extraordinary size; like a giant.

(a.) Such as a giant might use, make, or cause; immense; tremendous; extraordinarly; as, gigantic deeds; gigantic wickedness.

(a.) Of the age of, or pertaining to, the Trias.

(n.) The Triassic formation.

(a.) Capable of neutralizing three molecules of a monacid base, or their equivalent; having three hydrogen atoms capable of replacement by basic elements on radicals; -- said of certain acids; thus, citric acid is a tribasic acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to strontium; containing, or designating the compounds of, strontium.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, strophes.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Vandals; resembling the Vandals in barbarism and destructiveness.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, vanilla or vanillin; resembling vanillin; specifically, designating an alcohol and an acid respectively, vanillin being the intermediate aldehyde.

(n.) The language of ancient Ethiopia; the language of the ancient Abyssinian empire (in Ethiopia), now used only in the Abyssinian church. It is of Semitic origin, and is also called Geez.

(a.) Having a fine color.

(n.) A remedy which promotes discharges, as an emetic, or a cathartic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to good digestion; easy of digestion; having a good digestion; as, eupeptic food; an eupeptic man.

(a.) Alt. of Euphonical

(a.) Selecting; choosing (what is true or excellent in doctrines, opinions, etc.) from various sources or systems; as, an eclectic philosopher.

(a.) Consisting, or made up, of what is chosen or selected; as, an eclectic method; an eclectic magazine.

(n.) One who follows an eclectic method.

(a.) A great circle of the celestial sphere, making an angle with the equinoctial of about 23¡ 28'. It is the apparent path of the sun, or the real path of the earth as seen from the sun.

(a.) A great circle drawn on a terrestrial globe, making an angle of 23¡ 28' with the equator; -- used for illustrating and solving astronomical problems.

(a.) Pertaining to the ecliptic; as, the ecliptic way.

(a.) Pertaining to an eclipse or to eclipses.

(a.) Alt. of Economical

(n.) Pertaining to, or caused by, ecstasy or excessive emotion; of the nature, or in a state, of ecstasy; as, ecstatic gaze; ecstatic trance.

(n.) Delightful beyond measure; rapturous; ravishing; as, ecstatic bliss or joy.

(n.) An enthusiast.

(n.) The semisolid external layer of protoplasm in some unicellular organisms, as the amoeba; ectoplasm; exoplasm.

(a.) See Epizoic.

(a.) Having a tendency to prevent the development of anything, especially of a disease.

(a.) Alt. of Ecumenical

(a.) Alt. of Jesuitical

(n.) A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.

(n.) A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See Abecedarian.

(n.) Alt. of Acrostical

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a yellow crystalline astringent acid, (NO2)3.C6H.(OH)2, obtained by the action of nitric acid on resorcin. Styphnic acid resembles picric acid, but is not bitter. It acts like a strong dibasic acid, having a series of well defined salts.

(a.) Situated under, or posterior to, the pubic bones.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, glucinum; as, glucinic oxide.

(n.) A trochaic verse or measure.

(a.) Alt. of Trochaical

(a.) Of or pertaining to gluten.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid so called; as, glutaric ethers.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycerin.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycide; as, glycidic acid.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, glycol; as, glycolic ether; glycolic acid.

(a.) Consisting of a spondee, a choriamb, and a pyrrhic; -- applied to a kind of verse in Greek and Latin poetry.

(n.) A glyconic verse.

(a.) Applied to, or distinguishing, a speech element consisting of tone, or proper vocal sound, not pure as in the vowels, but dimmed and otherwise modified by some kind of obstruction in the oral or the nasal passage, and in some cases with a mixture of breath sound; -- a term introduced by Dr. James Rush in 1833. See Guide to Pronunciation, //155, 199-202.

(n.) A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.

(n.) The seventh tone of the scale, or that immediately below the tonic; -- called also subsemitone.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, amber; specif., designating a dibasic acid, C/H/.(CO/H)/, first obtained by the dry distillation of amber. It is found in a number of plants, as in lettuce and wormwood, and is also produced artificially as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste.

(a.) Relating to, or resembling, gneiss; consisting of gneiss.

(a.) Alt. of Gnomonical

(a.) Pertaining to a sultan.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals.

(n.) A landlord's right, independently of stipulation, over the stocking (cattle, implements, etc.), and crops of his tenant, as security for payment of rent.

(a.) Anterior in age to the lowest rocks which contain organic remains.

(a.) Alt. of Hysterical

(a.) Like, or pertaining to, fishes.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, nux vomica or St. Ignatius's bean; as, igasuric acid.

(a.) Not warlike or martial.

(a.) Alt. of Isagogical

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.

(a.) Alt. of Magnetical

(n.) A magnet.

(n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

(a.) Alt. of Magnifical

(a.) Alt. of Maieutical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, heptyl or heptane; as, heptylic alcohol. Cf. /nanthylic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to heralds or heraldry; as, heraldic blazoning; heraldic language.

(a.) Alt. of Hermetical

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the herpes; partaking of the nature of herpes; as, herpetic eruptions.

(a.) Consecrated to sacred uses; sacerdotal; pertaining to priests.

(a.) Tending or relating to a purpose or an end.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the earth; proceeding from the earth.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tellurium; derived from, or resembling, tellurium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with tellurous compounds; as, telluric acid, which is analogous to sulphuric acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tenesmus; characterized by tenesmus.

(a.) Causing terror; adapted to excite great fear or dread; terrible; as, a terrific form; a terrific sight.

(a.) Alt. of Harmonical

(n.) A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a tetrad; possessing or having the characteristics of a tetrad; as, a carbon is a tetradic element.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C3H3.CO2H, of the acetylene series, homologous with propiolic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic.

(a.) Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages.

(n.) The language of the ancient Germans; the Teutonic languages, collectively.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a thalamus or to thalami.

(a.) Theatrical.

(a.) Alt. of Theistical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the theme of a word. See Theme, n., 4.

(n.) Of or pertaining to a theme, or subject.

(a.) Alt. of Planetical

(a.) Alt. of Himyaritic

(a.) Obtained from the urine of horses; as, hippuric acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Spain or its language; as, Hispanic words.

(a.) Alt. of Historical

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, ytterbium; containing ytterbium.

(a.) Producing honey.

(a.) Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, the mineral mellite.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or resembling, a zeolite.

(n.) Of or pertaining to mountains; consisting of mountains.

(a.) Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds.

(a.) Of or pertaining to zoogeny, animal production.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a moranie.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.

(a.) Exciting the pulse; causing pulsation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to dolphin oil or porpoise oil; -- said of an acid (called also delphinic acid) subsequently found to be identical with valeric acid.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.

(a.) Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation.

(a.) Subterranean; -- applied to sources supplying wells.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances.

(n.) Same as Phthisis.

(a.) Pompous.

(a.) Relating to, or consisting of, pontiffs or priests.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; papal.

(a.) Alt. of Pictorical

(a.) Popliteal.

(a.) Alt. of Poristical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pindar, the Greek lyric poet; after the style and manner of Pindar; as, Pindaric odes.

(n.) A Pindaric ode.

(a.) Of or pertaining to tungsten; derived from, or resembling, tungsten; wolframic; as, tungstic oxide.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.

(n.) An East Indian plant of the genus Curcuma, of the Ginger family.

(n.) The root or rootstock of the Curcuma longa. It is externally grayish, but internally of a deep, lively yellow or saffron color, and has a slight aromatic smell, and a bitterish, slightly acrid taste. It is used for a dye, a medicine, a condiment, and a chemical test.

(a.) Of or pertaining to turmeric; resembling, or obtained from, turmeric; specif., designating an acid obtained by the oxidation of turmerol.

(a.) Relating to Syene; as, Syenitic inscriptions.

(a.) Relating to, or like, syenite; as, syenitic granite.

(a.) Alt. of Syllabical

(a.) Sylvan.

(a.) See Symbolics.

(a.) Alt. of Symbolical

(a.) Like granite in composition, color, etc.; having the nature of granite; as, granitic texture.

(a.) Consisting of granite; as, granitic mountains.

(a.) Alt. of Syndetical

(a.) Alt. of Synoptical

(n.) One of the first three Gospels of the New Testament. See Synoptist.

(a.) Of or relating to a system; common to a system; as, the systemic circulation of the blood.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the general system, or the body as a whole; as, systemic death, in distinction from local death; systemic circulation, in distinction from pulmonic circulation; systemic diseases.

(a.) Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., relating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, inosite; as, inosinic acid.

(a.) Characterized by the absence of power or force.

(a.) Alt. of Hydropical

(a.) Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.

(n.) A hydrotic medicine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hylozoism.

(a.) Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific.

(a.) Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition.

(n.) Any agent that produces, or tends to produce, sleep; an opiate; a soporific; a narcotic.

(n.) A person who exhibits the phenomena of, or is subject to, hypnotism.

(a.) Alt. of Papistical

(a.) Relating to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary.

(n.) A pulmonic medicine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or designating, a bone between the prootic and epiotic in the dorsal and outer part of the periotic capsule of many fishes.

(n.) The pterotic bone.

(a.) Prussian; -- applied to certain astronomical tables published in the sixteenth century, founded on the principles of Copernicus, a Prussian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the protasis of an ancient play; introductory.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as, propylic alcohol.

(a.) Having the quality of generating; producing young or fruit; generative; fruitful; productive; -- applied to plants producing fruit, animals producing young, etc.; -- usually with the implied idea of frequent or numerous production; as, a prolific tree, female, and the like.

(a.) Serving to produce; fruitful of results; active; as, a prolific brain; a controversy prolific of evil.

(a.) Proliferous.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.

(a.) Alt. of Methodical

(a.) Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

(a.) Influenced by the weather; as, meteoric conditions.

(a.) Flashing; brilliant; transient; like a meteor; as, meteoric fame.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.

(a.) Partaking of the qualites of marlite.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.

(a.) Producing profit; gainful.

(a.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.

(n.) The Mesozoic age or formation.

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

(a.) Alt. of Mesmerical

(a.) Mesenteric.

(a.) Mesaraic.

(a.) Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous.

(a.) Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.

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

(a.) Alt. of Mephitical

(a.) Alt. of Logistical

(a.) Containing lignite; resembling, or of the nature of, lignite; as, lignitic clay.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, an ancient people of Greece, of roving habits.

(a.) Wandering.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, palmitin or palm oil; as, palmitic acid, a white crystalline body belonging to the fatty acid series. It is readily soluble in hot alcohol, and melts to a liquid oil at 62¡ C.

(n.) An African wren warbler. (Drymoica textrix).

(a.) Alt. of Theurgical

(a.) Of or pertaining to the thorax, or chest.

(n.) One of a group of fishes having the ventral fins placed beneath the thorax or beneath the pectorial fins.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a region of the earth's surface including all of temperate and arctic North America and Greenland. In the geographical distribution of animals, this region is marked off as the habitat certain species.

(a.) Of or pertaining to birds; as, ornithic fossils.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found in certain lichens, and called also lecanoric acid.

(a.) Affected with necrosis; as, necrotic tissue; characterized by, or producing, necrosis; as, a necrotic process.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitroso derivative of barbituric acid. It is obtained as a white or yellow crystalline substance, and forms characteristic yellow, blue, and violet salts.

(a.) Containing leucite; as, leucitic rocks.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, linoleum, or linseed oil; specifically (Chem.), designating an organic acid, a thin yellow oil, found combined as a salt of glycerin in oils of linseed, poppy, hemp, and certain nuts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a volcano or volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.

(a.) Produced by a volcano, or, more generally, by igneous agencies; as, volcanic tufa.

(a.) Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, lichens.

() Alt. of Liturgical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Vulcan; made by Vulcan; Vulcanian.

(a.) Of or pertaining to volcanoes; specifically, relating to the geological theory of the Vulcanists, or Plutonists.

(a.) Alt. of Vulnifical

(a.) Same as Vulpic.

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid of osmium, H2N2Os2O5, forming a well-known series of yellow salts.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, Ossian, a legendary Erse or Celtic bard.

(a.) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

(a.) Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.

(a.) Of or pertaining to otoliths.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose; specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largely ordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.

(a.) Uself in disorders of, or affecting, the nerves.

(n.) A disease seated in the nerves.

(n.) Any toxic agent whose action is mainly directed to the great nerve centers.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, certain umbelliferous plants; as, umbellic acid.

(a.) Alt. of Umbratical

(a.) Alt. of Tyrannical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Tycho Brahe, or his system of astronomy.

(a.) Like a tympanum or drum; acting like a drumhead; as, a tympanic membrane.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the tympanum.

(n.) The tympanic bone.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, lactone.

(a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the oxidation of milk sugar (lactose).

(a.) Alt. of Lactifical

(a.) Alt. of Platonical

(n.) A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.

(a.) Alt. of Periodical

(a.) Surrounding, or pertaining to the region surrounding, the internal ear; as, the periotic capsule.

(n.) A periotic bone.

(n.) The outer, hardened integument which covers most hydroids.

(a.) Of or pertaining to parhelia.

(a.) Relating to or resembling perlite, or pearlstone; as, the perlitic structure of certain rocks. See Pearlite.

(a.) Alt. of Morbifical

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.

(a.) Of or pertaining to negroes; composed of negroes.

(a.) Alt. of Neological

(a.) Alt. of Neoterical

(n.) One of modern times; a modern.

(a.) Alt. of Mnemonical

(a.) Alt. of Parsonical

(a.) Of or pertaining to Pluto; Plutonian; hence, pertaining to the interior of the earth; subterranean.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory.

(n.) The jurisdiction of a pasha.

(a.) Alt. of Podagrical

(a.) Petrifying; petrifactive.

(a.) Pertaining to a poem, or to poetry; poetical.

(a.) Alt. of Juristical

(a.) Alt. of Prelatical

(a.) Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.

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

(a.) Affecting a whole people or a number of countries; everywhere epidemic.

(n.) A pandemic disease.

(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, pentyl; as, pentylic alcohol

(a.) Alt. of Pentelican

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, palladium; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with palladious compounds.