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The flux; dysentery. [Obs.] Udall. Flix weed (Bot.), the Sisymbrium Sophia, a kind of hedge mustard, formerly used as a remedy for dysentery.

it to turn black, without the formation of hoarfrost. -- Frost bearer (Physics), a philosophical instrument illustrating the freezing of water in a vacuum; a cryophous. -- Frost grape (Bot.), an American grape, with very small, acid berries. -- Frost lamp, a lamp placed below the oil tube of an Argand lamp to keep…

valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell.

uction or development. This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems of philosophy. Hare.

To endow with some power or faculty. He was gifted . . . with philosophical sagacity. I. Taylor.

The Pagrus, or Chrysophrys, auratus, a valuable food fish common in the Mediterranean (so named from its golden-colored head); -- called also giltpoll.

d and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.

ce between the eyebrows, also including the corresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon. -- Gla*bel"lar, a.

To prate; to jabber; to babble. [Obs.] Here many, clepid filosophirs, glavern diversely. Wyclif.

A glucoside found in licorice root (Glycyrrhiza), in monesia bark (Chrysophyllum), in the root of the walnut, etc., and extracted as a yellow, amorphous powder, of a bittersweet taste.

One of the so-called philosophers in the first ages of Christianity, who claimed a true philosophical interpretation of the Christian religion. Their system combined Oriental theology and Greek philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. They held that all natures, intelligible, intellectual, and material, are deriv…

The system of philosophy taught by the Gnostics.

system of religious doctrine; sometimes, any system of political doctrine or social philosophy; as, this political gospel. Burke.

sh vast results; strong; powerful; mighty; noble; as, a great hero, scholar, genius, philosopher, etc.

The tube by which food and drink are carried from the pharynx to the stomach; the esophagus.

l tricks upon; to humiliate by practical jokes; -- used esp. of college students; as, the sophomores hazed a freshman.

"Their princes and heads." Robynson (More's Utopia). The heads of the chief sects of philosophy. Tillotson. Your head I him appoint. Milton.

Gentile; pagan; as, a heathen author. "The heathen philosopher." "All in gold, like heathen gods." Shak.

That branch of moral philosophy which treats of the relation of duty to pleasure; the science of practical, positive enjoyment or pleasure. J. Grote.

The system of logic and philosophy set forth by Hegel, a German writer (1770-1831).