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An advocate of nativism.

Relating to nativism.

Lavish to excess.

A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.

The old theory that the egg contains the whole embryo of the future organism and the germs of all subsequent offsprings and is merely awakened to activity by the spermatozoön; -- opposed to spermism or animalculism.

Same as Ovulist.

See Panslavic, Panslavism, etc.

A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.

One who favors Panslavism.

A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.

a court of entrance to, or an inclosed space before, a church; hence, a church porch; -- sometimes formerly used as place of meeting, as for lawyers. Chaucer.

A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.

A soldier who carried a pavise.

l; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant. "Her peevish babe." Wordsworth. She is peevish, sullen, froward. Shak.

In a peevish manner. Shak.

The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper.

The calyx of a crinoid. Pelvis of the kidney (Anat.), the basinlike cavity into which the ureter expands as it joins the kidney.

Around the viscera; as, the perivisceral cavity.

See Parvis.

ain achromatic lenses, having the same focus for the actinic and for the brightest of the visual rays.