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A product of the gastric and pancreatic digestion of albuminous matter.

The history of the six day's work of creation, as contained in the first chapter of Genesis.

The science which treats of the complex relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally. St. George Mivart.

ld from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate. Pope.

an; especially, a disposition to relieve persons or animals in distress, and to treat all creatures with kindness and tenderness. "The common offices of humanity and friendship." Locke.

The disease caused by a bite form, or inoculation with the saliva of, a rabid creature, of which the chief symptoms are, a sense of dryness and construction in the throat, causing difficulty in deglutition, and a marked heightening of reflex excitability, producing convulsions whenever the patient attempts to swallow,…

Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia. Addis & Arnold.

"idea" for us How infinite the fall of this word, since the time where Milton sang of the Creator contemplating his newly- created world, -"how it showed . . . Answering his great idea," -to its present use, when this person "has an idea that the train has started," and the other "had no idea that the dinner would be s…

cription Matt. xxii. 20. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna. Shak. And God created man in his own image. Gen. i. 27.

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines. Our simple apprehension of corporeal objects, if present, is sense; if absent, is imagination. Glanvill. Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that…

iven to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. Milton had a highly imaginative, Cowley a very fanciful mind. Coleridge.

Not having money; habitually without money; poor. An impecunious creature. B. Jonson.

ce; esthetically or morally defective. Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created. Milton. Then say not man's imperfect, Heaven in fault; Say rather, man's as perfect as he ought. Pope. Imperfect arch, an arch of less than a semicircle; a skew arch. -- Imperfect cadence (Mus.), one not ending with the…

Want of procreative power; inability to copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility; barrenness.

Wanting the power of procreation; unable to copulate; also, sometimes, sterile; barren.

Represented as enraged, as any wild creature depicted with fire issuing from mouth and eyes.

being incinerated; cremation. The phenix kind, Of whose incineration, There riseth a new creation. Skelton.

The act of creating a corporation.

Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

o the body, and is infused into it at conception or birth; -- opposed to tradicianism and creationism.