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Covered with ramenta.

To attach again.

The act of reattaching; a second attachment.

ontaining something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository. O sacred receptacle of my joys! Shak.

Pertaining to the receptacle, or growing on it; as, the receptacular chaff or scales in the sunflower.

A receptacle; as, the receptaculum of the chyle.

An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.

See Rhotacism.

Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order (Rutacæ) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotaceæ) of (mostly tropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, or natural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and the India mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which the order is named.

Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.

Of a slate color.

Half crustaceous; partially crustaceous.

Half detached; partly distinct or separate. Semidetached house, one of two tenements under a single roof, but separated by a party wall. [Eng.]

Set with, or consisting of, bristles; bristly; as, a stiff, setaceous tail.

A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.

A kind of narrow braid, usually of silk; -- also known as Russian braid.

otice; a remarkable or noteworthy sight; a show; a pageant; a gazingstock. O, piteous spectacle O, bloody times! Shak.

Furnished with spectacles; wearing spectacles. As spectacled she sits in chimney nook. Keats.

Of or pertaining to a shows; of the nature of a show. "Spectacular sports." G. Hickes.