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Pertaining to an acid now called sulphovinic, or ethyl sulphuric, acid.

Relating to the creation, organization, and nutrition of living organs or parts.

The care and support of orphans. [R.] Cotton Mather (1711).

A hospital for orphans. [R.] A. Chalmers.

A reverberatory furnace with a circular revolving hearth, -- used in making steel.

A type or character used in phonotypy.

Of or pertaining to phonotypy; as, a phonotypic alphabet.

One versed in phonotypy.

A method of phonetic printing of the English language, as devised by Mr. Pitman, in which nearly all the ordinary letters and many new forms are employed in order to indicate each elementary sound by a separate character.

A crab of the genus pinnotheres. See Oyster crab, under Oyster.

A permanent photographic picture or print in platinum black.

A note issued by a bank, payable at some future specified time, as distinguished from a note payable on demand. Burrill.

To note or designate beforehand. Foxe.

A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.

A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods.

See Prothonotary.

The dorsal plate of the prothorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

A chief notary or clerk. " My private prothonotary." Herrick.

Office of a prothonotary.

Same as Prothonotary.