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Producing reeds or canes.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Having no distinct; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

An elementary sound produced by the breath alone; a surd, or nonvocal consonant; as, f, th in thin, etc.

To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invectiv…

The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration. Before the gates, the cries of babes newborn, . . . Assault his ears. Dryden.

Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.

Of or pertaining to Astrakhan in Russia or its products; made of an Astrakhan skin. -- n.

A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc. External astringents are called styptics. Dunglison.

Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

An element of speech entirely destitute of vocality, or produced by the breath alone; a nonvocal or surd consonant; a breathing. Rush.

Of or pertaining to atra bilis or black bile, a fluid formerly supposed to be produced by the kidneys.

A condition of the system produced by long use of belladonna.

cting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.

Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it. -- Au`to*cat`a*lyt"ic (#), a.

Self-produced; autogenous.