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A gelatinous modification of pectin.

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

An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.

A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.

Growing by the side of a petal, as a stamen.

Having a parapet.

Of the form of a pear.

Having five petals, or flower leaves.

A West African pie (Ptilostomus Senegalensis).

A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andr…

The treatment of disease by acting on the mind, as by suggestion; mind cure; psychotherapy.

Fruit, as grapes, plucked from the cluster. Ray.

Given to the commission of rape. Byron.

One who reaps. The sun-burned reapers wiping their foreheads. Macaulay.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, official formality. See Red tape, under Red, a.

To shape again.

Shaped like a saddle. Specifically:

Sagapenum.

A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.