(n.) A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery.

(n.) A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

(n.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

(n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

(a.) In the form of pus.

(n.) An aphetized form of a word.

(n.) A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters.

(n.) The principles of Dr. Pusey and others at Oxford, England, as exhibited in various publications, esp. in a series which appeared from 1833 to 1841, designated " Tracts for the Times;" tractarianism. See Tractarianism.

(n.) Alt. of Apophthegm

(n.) Habitual lewdness or prostitution of a woman; harlotry.

(n.) The state or condition of being an albino: abinoism; leucopathy.

(n.) The caudal plate of trilobites, crustacean, and certain insects. See Illust. of Limulus and Trilobite.

(n.) The white and softer part of wood, between the inner bark and the hard wood or duramen; sapwood.

(a.) Having the form of a pear; pear-shaped.

(n.) A term used to denote all of the elements or factors which constitute vitality or vital energy.

(n.) A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.

(n.) Same as Chromatism.

(n.) A comparatively rare element occurring most abundantly in the mineral chromite. Atomic weight 52.5. Symbol Cr. When isolated it is a hard, brittle, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty. Its chief commercial importance is for its compounds, as potassium chromate, lead chromate, etc., which are brilliantly colored and are used dyeing and calico printing. Called also chrome.

(n.) The coral or skeleton of a zoophyte, whether calcareous of horny, simple or compound. See Coral.

(n.) A canopy usually standing free and supported on four columns, covering the high altar, or, very rarely, a secondary altar.

(n.) The coffer or case in which the host is kept; the pyx.

(a.) Alt. of Ciliiform

(n.) A distinct girdle or band of color; a raised spiral line as seen on certain univalve shells.

(n.) The clitellus of earthworms.

(n.) The base of the crown of a tooth.

(n.) The manners of a cit or citizen.

(n.) The principle of civil government.

(n.) The earth alumina, as found native in a crystalline state, including sapphire, which is the fine blue variety; the oriental ruby, or red sapphire; the oriental amethyst, or purple sapphire; and adamantine spar, the hair-brown variety. It is the hardest substance found native, next to the diamond.

(n.) The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.

(n.) A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.

(n.) An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.

(n.) A little septum; a division between small cavities or parts.

(a.) Having the shape of a nose.

(n.) Amber.

(n.) An alloy of gold and silver, of an amber color, used by the ancients.

(n.) German-silver plate. See German silver, under German.

(n.) An example; a model; a pattern.

(n.) An example of a conjugation or declension, showing a word in all its different forms of inflection.

(n.) An illustration, as by a parable or fable.

(n.) Thuggee.

(n.) Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law or special custom descends to the heir along with the inheritance; any piece of personal property that has been in a family for several generations.

(n.) The condition of the Helots or slaves in Sparta; slavery.

(n.) A thing to be noted or observed; a notable fact; -- chiefly used in the plural.

(n.) The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism.

(n.) The state of being pagan; pagan characteristics; esp., the worship of idols or false gods, or the system of religious opinions and worship maintained by pagans; heathenism.

(n.) The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People's Charter.

(a.) The thick, curdy precipitate formed by the coagulation of albuminous matter; any mass of coagulated matter, as a clot of blood.

(pl. ) of Cherub

(n.) The Hebrew plural of Cherub.. Cf. Seraphim.

(n.) The millennium.

(n.) The doctrine of the personal reign of Christ on earth during the millennium.

(n.) The amphitheater of Vespasian at Rome, the largest in the world.

(v. i.) To flow over the brim; to be so full as to overflow.

(a.) Done (as bowling or pitching) with the arm raised above the shoulder. See Overhard.

(a.) Shaped like a foot.

(n.) A lyric composition.

(n.) The condition of being dioecious.

(n.) A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.

(n.) A species of damask made on the drawloom.

(n.) Snobbery.

(n.) An apartment freely exposed to the sun; anciently, an apartment or inclosure on the roof of a house; in modern times, an apartment in a hospital, used as a resort for convalescents.

(n.) Any one of several species of handsome marine spiral shells of the genus Solarium and allied genera. The shell is conical, and usually has a large, deep umbilicus exposing the upper whorls. Called also perspective shell.

(n.) Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings.

(n.) An impropriety or incongruity of language in the combination of words or parts of a sentence; esp., deviation from the idiom of a language or from the rules of syntax.

(n.) Any inconsistency, unfitness, absurdity, or impropriety, as in deeds or manners.

(n.) The doctrine that refers all diseases to morbid changes of the solid parts of the body. It rests on the view that the solids alone are endowed with vital properties, and can receive the impression of agents tending to produce disease.

(a.) Like the sun in form, appearance, or nature; resembling the sun.

(v. t.) To renounce all claim to deny; ownership of, or responsibility for; to disown; to disavow; to reject.

(v. t.) To deny, as a claim; to refuse.

(v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office.

(v. t.) To disavow or renounce all part, claim, or share.

(n.) A rare metallic element. It occurs quite widely, but in small quantities, and always combined. It is isolated as a soft yellowish white metal, analogous to potassium in most of its properties. Symbol Rb. Atomic weight, 85.2.

(n.) A constellation.

(n.) A small cluster of stars.

(n.) An asterisk, or mark of reference.

(n.) Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.

(n.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

(n.) Alt. of Athenaeum

(n.) A name suggested by Dr. Beale for the germinal matter supposed to be essential to the functions of all living beings; the material through which every form of life manifests itself; unaltered protoplasm.

(n.) A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

(n.) The land of one's birth; one's inheritance.

(n.) A favoring of, or attachment to, the Athenians.

(n.) The style and idiom of the Greek language, used by the Athenians; a concise and elegant expression.

(n.) Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.

(n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

(a.) Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.

(n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae.

(n.) Alt. of Algorithm

(n.) A pod which divides circularly into an upper and lower half, of which the former acts as a kind of lid, as in the pimpernel and purslane.

(n.) The theca of mosses.

(n.) The status or legal condition of an alien; alienage.

(n.) The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

(n.) Quackery.

(n.) An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.

(a.) Having the form of water.

(n.) An idiom of the Aramaic.

(n.) Freehold estate; land which is the absolute property of the owner; real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud.

(a.) An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

(a.) Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.

(n.) Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.

(a.) Having the form of an arch; curved.

(n.) The dominion, condition, or character of a queen.

(n.) Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness.

(n.) See Aluminium.

(n.) The doctrines of the Arians.

(n.) A compound radical, NH4, having the chemical relations of a strongly basic element like the alkali metals.

(n.) Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.

(n.) The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of God and his attributes.

(n.) The act or habit of quizzing.

(a.) Having the form of a branch.

(a.) Formed like the nose.

(n.) See Vital force.

(n.) An unidentified substance mentioned in the Bible (Gen. ii. 12, and Num. xi. 7), variously taken to be a gum, a precious stone, or pearls, or perhaps a kind of amber found in Arabia.

(n.) A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

(n.) A disease of hawks. See Filanders.

(n.) The larva of a moth (Heliothis armigera) which devours the bolls or unripe pods of the cotton plant, often doing great damage to the crops.

(n.) A room for balls or dancing.

(n.) That which is left after any process of separation or purification; that which remains after certain specified deductions are made; residue.

(n.) The secret science of the cabalists.

(n.) A superstitious devotion to the mysteries of the religion which one professes.

(n.) The governor of a sanjak or district in Turkey.

(n.) A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.

(a.) Composed of crossing lines and interstices; reticular; netlike; as, the retiform coat of the eye.

(n.) The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

(n.) A rural idiom or expression.

(n.) Alt. of Sabaism

(n.) The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.

(n.) An unroofed space consecrated to a divinity.

(n.) A small monumental chapel in a church.

(n.) A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus of lichens.

(a.) Sensitive or responsive to moral excellence.

(a.) Resembling an ox in form; ox-shaped.

(n.) The upper arm; the segment of the fore limb between the shoulder and the elbow.

(n.) The doctrine of royal prerogative or supremacy.

(n.) Rigidity in principle or practice; strictness; -- opposed to laxity.

(n.) Severity, as of style, or the like.

(v. t.) To rid of phlegm or water; to dephlegmate.

(n.) A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

(n.) A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.

(v. i.) To flow.

(n.) The doctrine of those who maintain the existence of two gods or of two original principles (as in Manicheism), one good and one evil; dualism.

(n.) A seal.

(n.) Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known.

(n.) A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation.

(n.) See Silicon.

(n.) The larva of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths, which spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon before changing to a pupa.

(n.) The state of being savage; the state of rude, uncivilized men, or of men in their native wildness and rudeness.

(n.) An idiom of the Saxon or Anglo-Saxon language.

(n.) A rare metallic element of the boron group, whose existence was predicted under the provisional name ekaboron by means of the periodic law, and subsequently discovered by spectrum analysis in certain rare Scandinavian minerals (euxenite and gadolinite). It has not yet been isolated. Symbol Sc. Atomic weight 44.

(n.) An ancient mode of punishing criminals among the Persians, by confining the victim in a trough, with his head and limbs smeared with honey or the like, and exposed to the sun and to insects until he died.

(v. t.) To exceed in venom.

(n.) Holland gin made at Schiedam in the Netherlands.

(n.) A marginal annotation; an explanatory remark or comment; specifically, an explanatory comment on the text of a classic author by an early grammarian.

(n.) A remark or observation subjoined to a demonstration or a train of reasoning.

(n.) A light, close carriage, with seats inside for two or four, and the fore wheels so arranged as to turn short.

(n.) The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.

(n.) The doctrines of the Brunonian system of medicine. See Brunonian.

(n.) The knowledge of a sciolist; superficial knowledge.

(n.) The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

(n.) An individual zooid of a bryozoan coralline, of which there may be two or more kinds in a single colony. The zooecia usually have a wreath of tentacles around the mouth, and a well developed stomach and intestinal canal; but these parts are lacking in the other zooids (Avicularia, Ooecia, etc.).

(n.) A genus of large univalve mollusks abundant in the arctic seas. It includes the common whelk (B. undatum).

(n.) The religion based upon the doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b. c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it was characterized by elevated humanity and morality. It presents release from existence (a beatific enfranchisement, Nirvana) as the greatest good. Buddhists believe in transmigration of souls through all phases and forms of life. Their number was estimated in 1881 at 470,000,000.

(n.) The character and opinions of a Jewish scribe in the time of Christ.

(n.) A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

(n.) Too frequent use of the letter m, or of the sound represented by it.

(n.) A plaster or poultice composed principally of powdered mustard seed, or containing the volatile oil of mustard seed. It is a powerful irritant.

(v. t.) To make familiar by use; to habituate, familiarize, or inure; -- with to.

(v. i.) To be wont.

(v. i.) To cohabit.

(n.) Custom.

() Alt. of Sintoist

(n.) A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.

(n.) A failure to make claim within the time limited by law; omission of claim.

(n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1.

(n.) The practice of meanly fawning on another; base sycophancy; servile adulation.

(v. t.) To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.

(n.) The closely matted hair or downy nap covering the leaves or stems of some plants.

(a.) In human form.

(n.) A collection of hairs united so as to form a sort of cup, and inclosing the stigma of a flower.

(n.) The immediate covering of the fruit dots or sori in many ferns, usually a very thin scale attached by the middle or side to a veinlet.

(n.) A peculiar covering found in certain fungi.

(n.) A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.

(n.) A vain fancy speculation; a reverie; a castle in the air; unfounded hope.

(n.) See Grub, n., 1.

(n.) A rare nonmetallic element found in certain minerals, as tantalite, samarskite, and fergusonite, and isolated as a dark powder which becomes steel-gray by burnishing. Symbol Ta. Atomic weight 182.0. Formerly called also tantalium.

(n.) A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.

(n.) The heart wood or the resin of the Guaiacum offinale or lignum-vitae, a large tree of the West Indies and Central America. It is much used in medicine.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of cestode worms belonging to Taenia and many allied genera. The body is long, flat, and composed of numerous segments or proglottids varying in shape, those toward the end of the body being much larger and longer than the anterior ones, and containing the fully developed sexual organs. The head is small, destitute of a mouth, but furnished with two or more suckers (which vary greatly in shape in different genera), and sometimes, also, with hooks for adhesion to the walls of the intestines of the animals in which they are parasitic. The larvae (see Cysticercus) live in the flesh of various creatures, and when swallowed by another animal of the right species develop into the mature tapeworm in its intestine. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) See 1st Tartar.

(n.) The skin or coat of a seed, especially the outer coat. See Testa.

(n.) The thickened posterior border of the corpus callosum; -- so called in allusion to its shape.

(n.) The corpus striatum.

(a.) Having the same form; uniform.

(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, which drops from trees by means of a thread of silk, as the cankerworm.

(n.) The system of religion, philosophy, and instruction, received and taught by the Druids; the rites and ceremonies of the Druids.

(n.) A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.

(n.) A logical deduction.

(n.) A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

(n.) A genus of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance. Eryngium maritimum, or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being formerly candied.

(n.) A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group, and analogous to sulphur in its compounds. It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores, and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass, or as a dark metallic-looking substance. It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity, and is used in certain electric apparatus. Symbol Se. Atomic weight 78.9.

(n.) The pineal gland.

(n.) A Semitic idiom; a word of Semitic origin.

(n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.

(a.) Cone-shaped; conical.

(n.) Sensualism.

(n.) A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties are distinguished as Tinea circinata, Tinea tonsurans, etc., but all are caused by the same parasite (a species of Trichophyton).

(a.) Shaped like an oar.

(v. t.) To affirm again.

(n.) The tenets of the Church of Rome; the Roman Catholic religion.

(n.) A region infested by rebels; rebels, considered collectively; also, conduct or quality characteristic of rebels.

(n.) Alt. of Abomasus

(a.) Having the form or shape of a kidney; as, a reniform mineral; a reniform leaf.

(n.) See Rhotacism.

(a.) Wheel-shaped; as, rotiform appendages.

(a.) Same as Rotate.

(n.) the conduct of a rowdy.

(n.) the principles or conduct of royalists.

(n.) The state of being a nomad.

(n.) A compound eye, as of insects and crustaceans.

(a.) Having every form or shape.

(n.) The state or character of a saint.

(n.) The character or quality of saints; also, hypocritical pretense of holiness.

(n.) A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red or Cayenne pepper of commerce.

(n.) A rare metallic element of doubtful identity.

(n.) The aromatic fruit, or capsule with its seeds, of several plants of the Ginger family growing in the East Indies and elsewhere, and much used as a condiment, and in medicine.

(n.) A plant which produces cardamoms, esp. Elettaria Cardamomum and several species of Amomum.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.

(n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters.

(n.) The chigoe, a species of flea.

(n.) A genus of trees with entire opposite leaves and small apetalous flowers. There are less than a dozen species, occurring from India to Australia and the Pacific Islands. See Sandalwood.

(n.) The tendency to associate in cliques; the spirit of cliques.

(n.) The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical spirit.

(n.) A worm or grub that makes for itself a case. See Caddice.

(n.) The apartment in which a club meets.

(n.) A compound medicinal powder, used by the ancients to sprinkle on ulcers, to absorb perspiration, etc.

(n.) The realm or domain of dunces.

(n.) The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.

(pl. ) of Seraph

(n.) The Hebrew plural of Seraph. Cf. Cherubim.

(adv.) In regular order; one after the other; severally.

(n.) The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.

(a.) Having the form or structure of setae.

(n.) A room before, or forming an entrance to, another; a waiting room.

(n.) A kind of castanet used by the Corybantes.

(n.) Alt. of Decagramme

(n.) Alt. of Decigramme

(n.) A supposed rare element, said to be associated with cerium, yttrium, etc., in the mineral samarskite, and more recently called samarium. Symbol Dp. See Samarium.

(a.) Of the form of a cube.

(n.) A half form; an imperfect form.

(a.) Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

(a.) Pertaining to, or versed in, the ancient wedge-shaped characters, or the inscriptions in them.

(n.) The wedge-shaped characters used in ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions.

(n.) One of the three tarsal bones supporting the first, second third metatarsals. They are usually designated as external, middle, and internal, or ectocuniform, mesocuniform, and entocuniform, respectively.

(n.) One of the carpal bones usually articulating with the ulna; -- called also pyramidal and ulnare.

(n.) The fragrant gum resin of various species of Boswellia; Oriental frankincense.

(n.) The doctrine or the practices of the Essenes.

(n.) The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.

(n.) The larve of any species of botfly which is parasitic upon the stag, as /strus, or Hypoderma, actaeon, which burrows beneath the skin, and Cephalomyia auribarbis, which lives in the nostrils.

(n.) Alt. of Stahlianism

(n.) A plat; a plan; a sketch; a model; a pattern. Used also figuratively.

(n.) A place laid out after a model.

(n.) Any flat or horizontal surface; especially, one that is raised above some particular level, as a framework of timber or boards horizontally joined so as to form a roof, or a raised floor, or portion of a floor; a landing; a dais; a stage, for speakers, performers, or workmen; a standing place.

(n.) A declaration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform.

(n.) A light deck, usually placed in a section of the hold or over the floor of the magazine. See Orlop.

(v. t.) To place on a platform.

(v. t.) To form a plan of; to model; to lay out.

(n.) The arts and practices or habits of gypsies; deception; cheating; flattery.

(n.) The state of a gypsy.

(n.) That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises, and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- so called because it begins with the word Habendum.

(n.) Technicality.

(n.) A child's toy, somewhat resembling a top, and twirled by the fingers.

(n.) A message sent by telegraph; a telegraphic dispatch.

(n.) The system of distinguishing families, clans, etc., in a tribe by the totem.

(n.) Superstitious regard for a totem; the worship of any real or imaginary object; nature worship.

(n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech.

(n.) The policy of the Jingoes, so called. See Jingo, 2.

(n.) The hawthorn.

(a.) Having different shapes or forms.

(a.) Containing notes by different persons; -- applied to a publication; as, a variorum edition of a book.

(n.) A room occupied as a messroom by the commissioned officers of a war vessel. See Gunroom.

(n.) A room used by the citizens of a city ward, for meetings, political caucuses, elections, etc.

(n.) A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.

(n.) A tool; an implement.

(n.) Same as Ascidium, n., 1.

(n.) A tin box, commonly cylindrical or flattened, used in collecting plants.

(a.) Having the form of a vessel, or duct.

(n.) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.

(n.) A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model.

(n.) Tincture of opium, used for various medical purposes.

(n.) A genus of coarse liliaceous herbs having very poisonous qualities.

(adv.) Word for word; in the same words; verbally; as, to tell a story verbatim as another has related it.

(adv.) Not seldom; frequently.

(n.) The faith, doctrines, or religious system of the Mohammedans; Mohammedanism; Islam.

(n.) A line connecting places on the earth's surface at which there is the same mean frequency of auroras.

(n.) A line connecting places on the earth having the same mean winter temperature. Cf. Isothere.

(n.) Something not true; a false statement.

(n.) Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity; ignorance.

(n.) A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface having the same temperature. This may be the temperature for a given time of observation, or the mean temperature for a year or other period. Also, a similar line based on the distribution of temperature in the ocean.

(n.) Tutorship.

(a.) Having the shape of a bear.

(n.) The office or position of an usher; ushership; also, ushers, collectively.

(n.) The poisonous herb aconite; also, an extract from it.

(n.) A denial of the existence of the universe as distinct from God.

(n.) The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.

(n.) The tenets of the Familists.

(a.) Having a form of gas; gaseous.

(n.) The state of the devil or of devils; doctrine of the devil or of devils.

(n.) The doctrine of the Docetae.

(n.) Alt. of Didrachma

(n.) A rare metallic substance usually associated with the metal cerium; -- hence its name. It was formerly supposed to be an element, but has since been found to consist of two simpler elementary substances, neodymium and praseodymium. See Neodymium, and Praseodymium.

(n.) A genus of freeswimming oceanic tunicates, allied to Salpa, and having alternate generations.

(n.) The tenets of the Donatists.

(n.) A Doric phrase or idiom.

(n.) A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc., caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacial ice.

(n.) A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.

(n.) A picture in lines; a sketch.

(n.) An arbitrary sign for a word.

(n.) Fanaticism.

(n.) Alt. of Faradization

(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth, as the cankeworm; a geometer; a measuring worm.

(a.) Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf.

(n.) An apparition; a specter.

(n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope.

(n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum.

(n.) Inspiration; enthusiasm.

(pl. ) of Speculum

(n.) A mirror, or looking-glass; especially, a metal mirror, as in Greek and Roman archaeology.

(n.) A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below.

(n.) An instrument for dilating certain passages of the body, and throwing light within them, thus facilitating examination or surgical operations.

(n.) A bright and lustrous patch of color found on the wings of ducks and some other birds. It is usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and is much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.

(n.) See Endoderm, and Illust. of Blastoderm.

(n.) The purslane tree of South Africa, -- said to be the favorite food of elephants.

(n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.

(n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.

(n.) A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with red or green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.

(n.) Same as Spicule.

(n.) A capping or crowning molding in classic architecture.

(n.) The doctrine of the Cynics; the quality of being cynical; the mental state, opinions, or conduct, of a cynic; morose and contemptuous views and opinions.

(n.) Same as Decagram.

(n.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness.

(n.) Strong excitement; wild enthusiasm; madness.

(n.) The belief in demons or false gods.

(n.) Any long, slender, worm-shaped bivalve mollusk of Teredo and allied genera. The shipworms burrow in wood, and are destructive to wooden ships, piles of wharves, etc. See Teredo.

(n.) Strabismus.

(n.) A stammering or stuttering.

(n.) The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

(n.) A genus of plants having a beaklike tours or receptacle, around which the seed capsules are arranged, and membranous projections, or stipules, at the joints. Most of the species have showy flowers and a pungent odor. Called sometimes crane's-bill.

(n.) A cultivated pelargonium.

(n.) See Ectosarc, and Ectoplasm.

(n.) The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.

(n.) Conjuration for raising spirits.

(n.) A beginning; an introduction; especially, the introductory part of a discourse or written composition, which prepares the audience for the main subject; the opening part of an oration.

(n.) Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.

(n.) Intercalated time.

(n.) The occlusion of a blood vessel by an embolus. Embolism in the brain often produces sudden unconsciousness and paralysis.

(n.) The wishbone or merrythought of birds, formed by the united clavicles.

(a.) Shaped like a spindle; tapering at each end; as, a fusiform root; a fusiform cell.

(n.) A small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists.

(n.) A place of trade; a market place; a mart; esp., a city or town with extensive commerce; the commercial center of a country.

(n.) The brain.

(n.) Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.

(n.) A gum resin exuding from the stems of certain Asiatic umbelliferous plants, mostly species of Ferula. The Bubon Galbanum of South Africa furnishes an inferior kind of galbanum. It has an acrid, bitter taste, a strong, unpleasant smell, and is used for medical purposes, also in the arts, as in the manufacture of varnish.

(n.) The doctrines of Galen.

(n.) A person employed to do all kinds of work or business.

(n.) The inner layer of the skin or integument of an animal.

(n.) The innermost layer of the blastoderm and the structures derived from it; the hypoblast; the entoblast. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

(n.) Nothingness; nihility.

(n.) The doctrine that nothing can be known; scepticism as to all knowledge and all reality.

(n.) The theories and practices of the Nihilists.

(n.) The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.

(n.) Essential element, or constituent element.

(n.) The muscular stomach, or gizzard, of birds.

(n.) See Gypsyism.

(n.) The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.

(n.) The doctrines of the Molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the Arminians.

(n.) A rare element of the nitrogen-phosphorus group, found combined, in vanadates, in certain minerals, and reduced as an infusible, grayish-white metallic powder. It is intermediate between the metals and the non-metals, having both basic and acid properties. Symbol V (or Vd, rarely). Atomic weight 51.2.

(n.) A room where news is collected and disseminated, or periodicals sold; a reading room supplied with newspapers, magazines, etc.

(n.) The first month of the Mohammedan year.

(n.) A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.

(n.) A formal eulogy.

(n.) An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.

(n.) The outer layer of the blastoderm; epiblast.

(n.) The external skin or outer layer of an animal or plant, this being formed in an animal from the epiblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm.

(n.) Same as Exanthema.

(n.) Excessive use of the pronoun we; -- called also weism.

(n.) A flag or standard.

(n.) A company of troops serving under one standard.

(n.) A banner.

(n.) The sign of the cross.

(n.) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower; the standard.

(n.) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

(n.) An allowance for traveling expenses made to those who were sent into the provinces to exercise any office or perform any service.

(n.) Provisions for a journey.

(n.) The communion, or eucharist, when given to persons in danger of death.

(n.) A genus of shrubs having opposite, petiolate leaves and cymose flowers, several species of which are cultivated as ornamental, as the laurestine and the guelder-rose.

(n.) Strictness, or the doctrine of strictness, in conforming to law.

(n.) Nascent cortex, or immature cellular bark.

(n.) Lack or defect of pulsation.

(n.) The property of radiant energy (found chiefly in solar or electric light) by which chemical changes are produced, as in photography.

(n.) A supposed metal, said by Phipson to be contained in commercial zinc; -- so called because certain of its compounds are darkened by exposure to light.

(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants; the three-leaved nightshade; -- so called because all the parts of the plant are in threes.

(n.) A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.

(n.) A rare metallic element, of a silver white color, and low specific gravity (2.1), resembling magnesium. It never occurs naturally in the free state, but is always combined, usually with silica or alumina, or both; as in the minerals phenacite, chrysoberyl, beryl or emerald, euclase, and danalite. It was named from its oxide glucina, which was known long before the element was isolated. Symbol Gl. Atomic weight 9.1. Called also beryllium.

(n.) The handkerchief upon which the Savior is said to have impressed his own portrait miraculously, when wiping his face with it, as he passed to the crucifixion.

(n.) The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.

(n.) The outer layer of bark.

(n.) The hard outer covering of hydroids and other marine animals; the perisarc.

(n.) The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

(n.) Opium.

(n.) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.

(n.) The quality or state of being ideal.

(n.) Conception of the ideal; imagery.

(n.) The system or theory that denies the existence of material bodies, and teaches that we have no rational grounds to believe in the reality of anything but ideas and their relations.

(n.) The doctrine taught by Schelling, that matter and mind, and subject and object, are identical in the Absolute; -- called also the system / doctrine of identity.

(n.) An original, pictorial element of writing; a kind of hieroglyph expressing no sound, but only an idea.

(n.) A symbol used for convenience, or for abbreviation; as, 1, 2, 3, +, -, /, $, /, etc.

(n.) A phonetic symbol; a letter.

(n.) An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.

(n.) Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness.

(n.) The sentiment of attachment to a federal union, especially to the federal union of the United States.

(n.) The principles, or the system, of combination among workmen engaged in the same occupation or trade.

(n.) A genus of Asiatic and American magnoliaceous trees, having star-shaped fruit; star anise. The fruit of Illicium anisatum is used as a spice in India, and its oil is largely used in Europe for flavoring cordials, being almost identical with true oil of anise.

(n.) A yellow, crystalline, volatile substance, CI3H, having an offensive odor and sweetish taste, and analogous to chloroform. It is used in medicine as a healing and antiseptic dressing for wounds and sores.

(n.) A genus of violaceous plants, chiefly found in tropical America, some species of which are used as substitutes for ipecacuanha.

(n.) The frequent use of the sound of iota (that of English e in be), as among the modern Greeks; also, confusion from sounding /, /, /, /, //, etc., like /.

(n.) A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.

(v. t.) To exceed in storming.

(n.) See Macrocosm.

(a.) Turnip-shaped; large and round in the upper part, and very slender below.

(n.) An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; -- the opposite of albinism.

(n.) A disease; black jaundice. See Mel/na.

(v. t.) To recognize or judge in advance; to forebode.

(v. i.) To know or discover beforehand; to foretell.

(v. t.) To doom beforehand; to predestinate.

(n.) Doom or sentence decreed in advance.

(n.) A coleopterous insect of the genus Lampyris; esp., the wingless females and larvae of the two European species (L. noctiluca, and L. splendidula), which emit light from some of the abdominal segments.

(n.) The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.

(n.) Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government.

(n.) A pun.

(n.) A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.

(n.) Hook-shaped.

(n. pl.) Images connected with the magical rites used by those Israelites who added corrupt practices to the patriarchal religion. Teraphim were consulted by the Israelites for oracular answers.

(a.) Having the shape of a thread or filament; as, the filiform papillae of the tongue; a filiform style or peduncle. See Illust. of AntennAe.

(n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam.

(n.) The larva of a small tortricid moth which eats the leaves of the cranberry, so that the vines look as if burned; -- called also cranberry worm.

(n.) A rare metallic element of the aluminium group found in some minerals, as certain pyrites, and also in the lead-chamber deposit in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. It is isolated as a heavy, soft, bluish white metal, easily oxidized in moist air, but preserved by keeping under water. Symbol Tl. Atomic weight 203.7.

(n.) The property or jurisdiction of a thane; thanage.

(a.) Having the form of tea.

(n.) A worm or grub found among flags and sedge.

(n.) The religious doctrines and rites of the Hindoos; Brahmanism.

(n.) One of the larvae of various species of snapping beetles, or elaters; -- so called from their slenderness and the uncommon hardness of the integument. Wireworms are sometimes very destructive to the roots of plants. Called also wire grub.

(n.) A galleyworm.

(n.) A ray of light from the moon.

(n.) One of the cells or tubes which inclose the feeling zooids of Bryozoa. See Illust. of Sea Moss.

(n.) One of the spermatic particles; spermatozoid.

(n.) The practice of boxing, or fighting with the fist.

(n.) A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species (Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.

(n.) An inert amorphous white powder, PN2H, obtained by passing ammonia over heated phosphorus.

(n.) A figure consisting of many lines.

(n.) An object which has a variety of names.

(n.) A polynomial name or term.

(n.) More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, with or without sexual desire.

(n.) The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig.

(n.) Roguery; thievery.

(a.) Of or pertaining to Piciformes.

(n.) The teredo.

(n.) The free-swimming, hat-shaped larva of certain nemertean worms. It has no resemblance to its parent, and the young worm develops in its interior.

(a.) Resembling hairs or down.

(a.) Resembling a pore, or small puncture.

(n.) Any myriapod of the genus Iulus and allied genera which rolls up spirally; a galleyworm. See Illust. under Myriapod.

(n.) Alt. of Pilotry

(v. t.) To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace.

(v. t.) To outlaw by public proclamation.

(n.) Human nature or disposition; humanity.

(n.) The study of the humanities; polite learning.

(a.) In the form of a tube; tubular; tubiform.

(a.) Having the form of a tube; tubeform.

(n.) A special groove or furrow at one or both angles of the mouth of many Anthozoa.

(n.) A component cell of the yellowish green layer in certain lichens.

(n.) People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively.

(n.) Alt. of Syconus

(n.) The theory founded on the influence which the humors were supposed to have in the production of disease; Galenism.

(n.) The manner or disposition of a humorist; humorousness.

(n.) An instrument out of tune or rudely constructed; music badly played.

(n.) A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

(a.) Having the form or nature of air, or of an elastic fluid; gaseous. Hence fig.: Unreal.

(n.) The spore-bearing surface of certain fungi, as that on the gills of a mushroom.

(v. t.) To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.

(adv.) Ounce by ounce.

(a.) Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked from; hooklike.

(n.) The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla.

(n.) Same as Hypoblast.

(n.) The subterraneous portion of a building, as in amphitheaters, for the service of the games; also, subterranean galleries, as the catacombs.

(n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.

(n.) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.

(n.) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.

(a.) Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

(a.) Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.

(n.) The external organs of generation, especially of the female; the vulva.

(n.) Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva.

(n.) Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

(n.) A proposition adopted by a majority of votes; especially, one adopted by vote of the Athenian people; a statute.

(n.) The doctrine of Quesne, that there is a fluid universally diffused, end equally animating all living beings, the difference in their actions being due to the difference of the individual organizations.

(n.) That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.

(n.) A mold; a matrix.

(n.) A whimsical thing; an odd device; a trifle; a trinket; a gimcrack.

(n.) A whim, or whimsey; a freak.

(n.) The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

(n.) Alt. of Kilogramme

(n.) A tippler.

(adv.) Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.

(n.) A genus of ferns with twining or climbing fronds, bearing stalked and variously-lobed divisions in pairs.

(a.) Resembling the moon in shape.

(n.) Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms which infest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and other animals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylus micrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known.

(n.) A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

(a.) Having, in some respects, the nature of light; resembling light.

(a.) Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; not zealous; cool; indifferent.

(n.) A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.

(n.) The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm.

(n.) The middle body layer in some invertebrates.

(n.) The middle layer of tissue in some vegetable structures.

(a.) Shaped like the hand.

(n.) A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

(n.) A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i. e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.

(n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.

(a.) Resembling a pea or peas in size and shape; as, a pisiform iron ore.

(n.) A small bone on the ulnar side of the carpus in man and many mammals. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.

(n.) See Headway, 2.

(n.) Any worm belonging to the Plathelminthes; also, sometimes applied to the planarians.

(n.) A Hebrew idiom or custom; a peculiar expression or manner of speaking in the Hebrew language.

(n.) The type of character of the Hebrews.

(v. t.) A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm.

(n.) The condition of a thrall; slavery; bondage; state of servitude.

(n.) A freak; a trick; a lie.

() A nematoid worm of the genus Gordius, resembling a hair. See Gordius.

(n.) Innovation.

(a.) Shaped like a nut; nut-shaped.

(n.) The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

(n.) The doctrine of innate ideas, or that the mind possesses forms of thought independent of sensation.

(n.) The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent.

(n.) Organic structure; organization.

(n.) An organized being; a living body, either vegetable or animal, compozed of different organs or parts with functions which are separate, but mutually dependent, and essential to the life of the individual.

(n.) A genus of aromatic labiate plants, including the sweet marjoram (O. Marjorana) and the wild marjoram (O. vulgare).

(n.) A bond of union; a tie.

(n.) A straight, horizontal mark placed over two or more members of a compound quantity, which are to be subjected to the same operation, as in the expression x2 + y2 - x + y.

(n.) A band or bundle of fibers; a fraenum.

(n.) A commissure uniting the two main tendons in the foot of certain birds.

(n.) The principles of the Whigs.

(n.) A nematode worm (Trichocephalus dispar) often found parasitic in the human intestine. Its body is thickened posteriorly, but is very long and threadlike anteriorly.

(n.) The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.

(n.) The sin of worshiping idols; idolatry.

(n.) The doctrine that all the functions of a living organism are due to an unknown vital principle distinct from all chemical and physical forces.

(n.) A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising living animals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.

(n.) The disposition or endeavor to level all distinctions of rank in society.

(n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.

(n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.

(n.) The exercise of the vocal organs; vocalization.

(n.) A vocalic sound.

(n.) A writing composed of words not having a certain letter or letters; -- as in the Odyssey of Tryphiodorus there was no A in the first book, no B in the second, and so on.

(n.) That form of electricity which is developed by the chemical action between metals and different liquids; voltaic electricity; also, the science which treats of this form of electricity; -- called also galvanism, from Galvani, on account of his experiments showing the remarkable influence of this agent on animals.

(n.) The use of vowels.

(n.) A solution of alkaline salts extracted from wood ashes; hence, any solution obtained by lixiviation.

(n.) The state or quality of being local; affection for a particular place.

(n.) A method of speaking or acting peculiar to a certain district; a local idiom or phrase.

(n.) In bats, an expansion of the integument uniting the fore limb with the body and extending between the elongated fingers to form the wing; in birds, the similar fold of integument uniting the fore limb with the body.

(n.) One of a pair of small vesicular organs situated at the bases of the anterior wings of lepidopterous insects. See Illust. of Butterfly.

(v. t.) To pass, or escape, while dreaming.

(n.) The saving of a son or a slave with the father's or master's consent; a little property or stock of one's own; any exclusive personal or separate property.

(n.) A special fund for private and personal uses.

(a.) Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

(n.) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign president when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.

(n.) A court, or cause in court.

(n.) The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, as radical reform, and the like.

(n.) The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.

(n.) A chamber in the anterior part of the syrinx of birds.

(n.) One of the naked, inflatable air sacs on the neck of the prairie chicken and other species of grouse.

(n.) The recessed face of a pediment within the frame made by the upper and lower cornices, being usually a triangular space or table.

(n.) The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.

(n.) A drum-shaped wheel with spirally curved partitions by which water is raised to the axis when the wheel revolves with the lower part of the circumference submerged, -- used for raising water, as for irrigation.

(n.) The state of being a tyro, or beginner.

(n.) A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.

(n.) A vigorous, brief manner of expression; laconic style.

(n.) An instance of laconic style or expression.

(n.) See Ladanum.

(n.) The lower or apparently anterior petal of an orchidaceous flower, often of a very curious shape.

(n.) A small appendage beneath the upper lip or labrum of certain insects.

(n.) A West African antelope (Damalis Senegalensis), allied to the sassaby. It is reddish gray, with a black face, and a black stripe on the outside of the legs above the knees.

(n.) An engraved tablet, usually of brass, set up in a public place.

(n.) A metallic element, intermediate in value between silver and gold, occurring native or alloyed with other metals, also as the platinum arsenide (sperrylite). It is heavy tin-white metal which is ductile and malleable, but very infusible, and characterized by its resistance to strong chemical reagents. It is used for crucibles, for stills for sulphuric acid, rarely for coin, and in the form of foil and wire for many purposes. Specific gravity 21.5. Atomic weight 194.3. Symbol Pt. Formerly called platina.

(n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum.

(n.) The region which is included within the outlet of the pelvis, and is traversed by the urinogenital canal and the rectum.

(n.) A small instrument of ivory, wood, metal, or quill, used in playing upon the lyre and other stringed instruments.

(n.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

(n.) A long measure of 100 Greek, or 101 English, feet; also, a square measure of 10,000 Greek feet.

(n.) A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth.

(n.) See Wood worm, under Wood.

(n.) Any room or apartment used especially for labor.

(n.) Same as Mimicry.

(n.) A species of elm (Ulmus montana) found in Northern and Western Europe; Scotch elm.

(n.) A genus of composite plants in which the scales of the involucre are united so as to form a kind of bur; cocklebur; clotbur.

(a.) Resembling mucus; having the character or appearance of mucus.

(n.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

(n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser.

(n.) A mistaken claim.

(n.) A new formation or tissue, the product of morbid action.

(n. pl.) Giants.

(n.) Undue attachment to relations; favoritism shown to members of one's family; bestowal of patronage in consideration of relationship, rather than of merit or of legal claim.

(n. pl.) Servants of the priests and Levites in the menial services about the tabernacle and temple.

(n.) The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs at intervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions.

(n.) Any sudden and violent emotion; spasmodic passion or action; a convulsion; a fit.

(n.) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. It is characterized by various symptoms, as lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop. See under Colic, Lead, and Wrist.

(n.) Devotion to party.

(n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

(n.) A stalk which bears the fructification in some lichens, as in the so-called reindeer moss.

(a.) Formed like kali, or glasswort.

(n.) The worship of the generative principle in nature, symbolized by the phallus.

(n.) An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.

(n.) A mental image or representation of a real object; a fancy; a notion.

(n.) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.

(n.) The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

(a.) Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa in corals.

(n.) Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.

(n.) The hollow stem or tube of a pipe used for smoking tobacco, etc.