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rs, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

n not do without; a requisite; an essential; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the necessaries of life.

e or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

iligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. Contributory negligence. See under Contributory.

(Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. -- Nose of wax, fig., a person who is pliant and easily influenced. "A nose of wax to be turned every way." Massinger -- Nose piece, the nozzle of a pipe, hose, bellows, etc.; the end piece of a mi…

Any one of a subfamily (Najades) of butterflies including the purples, the fritillaries, the peacock butterfly, etc.; -- called also naiad.

stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

th blackish ocellated spots and blotches, which are variously arranged. The ground color varies from reddish gray to tawny yellow.

Kept in stock by apothecaries; -- said of such drugs and medicines as may be obtained without special preparation or compounding; not magistral.

Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. [Archaic] Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries Officious. Milton. They were tolerably well bred, very officious, humane, and hospitable. Burke.

in ordinary or common use. Water buckets, wagons, cart wheels, plow socks, and other ordinaries. Sir W. Scott.

The farthest or exterior bounds; extreme limits; boundaries. Spenser.

One of the tubes of which the ovaries of most insects are composed.

The operation of removing one or both of the ovaries; oöphorectomy.

Inflammation of the ovaries.

bones (often united in the adult) in the root of the mouth, back of and between the maxillaries.

One of the greater ordinaries, being a broad perpendicular stripe in an escutcheon, equally distant from the two edges, and occupying one third of it.

Producing ova only; -- said of the ovaries of certain insects which do not produce vitelligenous cells.

ves, and white fragrant flowers sometimes tinged with purple, growing in pairs with the ovaries united, and producing the berries which remain over winter; also, the plant itself. (b) The fruit of the creeping wintergreen (Gaultheria procumbens); also, the plant itself. -- Partridge dove (Zoöl.) Same as Mountain witch…

Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries; as, an escutcheon party per pale.