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Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

By, or with, misapprehension.

To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.

Full of moths. [Obs.] Fulke.

A nun. [Obs.]

A peculiar hydrocarbon occuring as an ingredient of Caucasian petroleum.

A condition of nervous debility supposed to be dependent upon impairment in the functions of the spinal cord.

ound obtained as a yellowish gray, odorless, tasteless powder by the action of iodine on phenolphthalein.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon of the octylene series, occurring in Caucasian petroleum.

See Army organization, above.

Of or pertaining to the sphenoid bone and the orbit, or to the orbitosphenoid bone. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the orbitosphenoid bone; orbitosphenoid.

Elfish. [Obs.]

To overtake. [Obs.] So forth he went and soon them overhent. Spenser.

Pertaining to, or designating, the phenol formerly called oxyphenic acid, and now oxyphenol and pyrocatechin. See Pyrocatechin.

A phenol, oxyphenic acid, and now pyrocatechin.

The most ancient and important festival of Athens, celebrated in honor of Athena, the tutelary goddess of the city.

Near the sphenoid bone; -- applied especially to a bone situated immediately beneath the sphenoid in the base of the skull in many animals. -- n.