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rvative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

That branch of mathematics which treats of the relations and properties of quantity by means of letters and other symbols. It is applicable to those relations that are true of every kind of magnitude.

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

The madder of the Levant. Brande & C.

A membranous appendage of the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles, -- in mammals serving to connect the fetus with the parent; the urinary vesicle.

Of a pale brown color; leather-yellow. Brande.

even proscribed the use of buttons and shaving as "worldly conformity". There are several branches of Amish Mennonites in the United States.

Forgetfulness; cessation of remembrance of wrong; oblivion.

A thin membrane surrounding the embryos of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

A name applied to the elasmobranch fishes, because the nasal sac is double.

lating upon all the particulars of a subject. Exaggeration is a species of amplification. Brande & C. I shall summarily, without any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

Any membranous bag shaped like a leathern bottle, as the dilated end of a vessel or duct; especially the dilations of the semicircular canals of the ear.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

rds; -- said of terns in which the lowest secondary segments are on the upper side of the branch of the central stem. D. C. Eaton.

ch a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C.

ients (French Hist.), one of the two assemblies composing the legislative bodies in 1795. Brande.

the conversion of the stamens into petals, as double flowers, like the garden ranunculus. Brande.

a part of itself; as, the filbert covered by its husk, or the acorn seated in its cupule. Brande & C.

Without definite structure; as, an anhistous membrane.

rse of a stream for the purpose of regulating the flow of a system of irrigation. [India] Brande & C.