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Of or pertaining to revocation; tending to, or involving, a revocation; revoking; recalling.

Having perennial rootstocks or bulbs, but annual flowering stems; -- said of all perennial herbs.

Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens.

A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds of garlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.

fleshy part of a stone fruit, situated between the skin, or epicarp, and the stone, or endocarp, as in a peach. See Illust. of Endocarp.

A dry fruit which splits at maturity into several closed one- seeded portions.

Of or pertaining to a semivowel; half cocal; imperfectly sounding.

A calling aside. [Obs.]

the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty and twenty shillings rent. [Written also soccage.]

A tennant by socage; a socman.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

A menial attendant. [Obs.] Spenser.

An under or subordinate advocate.

Situated under the endocardium.

Same as Subtonic.

Suffocated; choked. Shak.

from Suffocate, v. -- Suf"fo*ca`ting*ly, adv.

The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking.

Tending or able to choke or stifle. "Suffocative catarrhs." Arbuthnot.

A salt of sulphocarbonic acid; a thiocarbonate.