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To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.

An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound. Wiseman.

The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde (1597).

A white, sugarlike substance, C6H8.(OH)2, occurring naturally in a manna from Madagascar, and in certain plants, and produced artificially by the reduction of galactose and lactose or milk sugar.

e, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

The inner or principal branch of the oral appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilla.

The internal or principal branch of the locomotive appendages of Crustacea. See Maxilliped.

Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

The act of reducing to slavery; state of being enslaved; bondage; servitude. A fresh enslavement to their enemies. South.

A cartilaginous lidlike appendage which closes the glottis while food or drink is passing while food or drink is passing through the pharynx.

In crustaceans: The part of the side of a somite external to the basal joint of each appendage. See Illust. under Crustacea.

like birds of the genus Æpiornis, only recently extinct. Its remains have been found in Madagascar. [Written also Æpyornis.]

The superficial layer of cells lining the alimentary canal and all its appendages, all glands and their ducts, blood vessels and lymphatics, serous cavities, etc. It often includes the epidermis (i. e., keratin-producing epithelial cells), and it is sometimes restricted to the alimentary canal, the glands and their app…

A species of Spanish grass (Macrochloa tenacissima), of which cordage, shoes, baskets, etc., are made. It is also used for making paper.

An excrescence or appendage; an outgrowth. [Obs.] "Ornamental excrements." Fuller. Living creatures put forth (after their period of growth) nothing that is young but hair and nails, which are excrements and no parts. Bacon.

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a troublesome superfluity; an incumbrance; as, an excrescence on the body, or on a plant. "Excrescences of joy." Jer. Taylor. The excrescences of the Spanish monarchy. Addison…

The external branch of the appendages of Crustacea.

One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man.

A viverrine mammal of Madagascar (Eupleres Goudotii), allied to the civet; -- called also Falanouc.

A fee or rent paid by a tenant for the privilege of faldage on his own ground. Blount.