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Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.

The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor. [Written also muscadine.]

Finest raisins, dried on the vine; "sun raisins." [Variously written moscatel, muscadel, etc.]

See Muscadel.

The act of opening an academical disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree. [Eng.] Todd.

, through life; -- said especially of certain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.

Hermaphrodite; having both stamens and pistils; -- said of flower. Perfect cadence (Mus.), a complete and satisfactory close in harmony, as upon the tonic preceded by the dominant. -- Perfect chord (Mus.), a concord or union of sounds which is perfectly coalescent and agreeable to the ear, as the unison, octave, fifth…

A continuous colonnade or arcade; -- applied to the decorative groups of windows, as in Venetian palazzi.

ermanent; as, persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed to deciduous, and caducous.

A cade lamb; a lamb brought up by hand.

ed with powder and attached to a plank, to be exploded against and break down gates, barricades, drawbridges, etc. It has been superseded.

A treatise on philosophy. Philosophy of the Academy, that of Plato, who taught his disciples in a grove in Athens called the Academy. -- Philosophy of the Garden, that of Epicurus, who taught in a garden in Athens. -- Philosophy of the Lyceum, that of Aristotle, the founder of the Peripatetic school, who delivered hi…

A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddice flies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera. [Written also Phryganides.]

An open square in a European town, especially an Italian town; hence (Arch.), an arcaded and roofed gallery; a portico. In the United States the word is popularly applied to a veranda. We walk by the obelisk, and meditate in piazzas. Jer. Taylor.

t has been placed on the ground. -- Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. -- To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. "Neither give place to the devil." Eph. iv. 27. "Let all the rest give place." Shak. -- To have place, to have a station, room, or seat; as, such…

nes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave. Plagal cadence, a cadence in which the final chord on the tonic is preceded by the chord on the subdominant.

A member of the lowest class in the military academy at West Point. [Cant, U.S.]

A scholar at Merton College, Oxford, who has a certain academical allowance or portion; -- corrupted into postmaster. Shipley.

Of or pertaining to the lowest beds of the Silurian age, corresponding to the Acadian and Potsdam periods in American geology. It is called also Cambrian, and by many geologists is separated from the Silurian.

Of or pertaining to a proctor, esp. an academic proctor; magisterial.