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Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

s is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A str…

additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

port, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

A pipe for the passage of air; esp. a ventilating pipe.

By any or means; at all events. [Obs.] Fairfax.

The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. -- Al`ka*hes"tic, a.

A dance in moderate twofold time, invented by the French in the reign of Louis XIV.; -- now mostly found in suites of pieces, like those of Bach and Handel.

produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

A recently invented instrument for observing the heavenly bodies as they cross a given almacantar circle. See Almucantar.

A practitioner who tries to prevent or cure baldness.

d at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.

oluble in water and in spirit of wine, and is used in medicine as an expectorant and resolvent, and for the formation of certain plasters.

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventral circle of special cilia.

An error in regard to the place of an event or a thing; a referring something to a wrong place. [R.]

A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.

s virtues amidst all his misfortunes -- misfortunes which no prudence could foresee or prevent."