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The art or practice of burning pictures on wood with a hot iron; -- called also poker painting. See Poker picture, under Poker.

To become checked in normal development, so as either to remain rudimentary or shrink away wholly; to become sterile.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed.

Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc.

of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope.

Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.

Sloping upward; rising as a hillside; -- opposed to declivous.

The process of generation by development of blastema, or fission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect like the individual from which it proceeds.

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.

s or liquors. Also fig.: Sour-tempered. He was stern and his face as acid as ever. A. Trollope.

Developing from below towards the apex, or from the circumference towards the center; centripetal; -- said of certain inflorescence.

One of the largest African antelopes (Hippotragus, or Oryx, nasomaculatus).

Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.

A form of fruit in the cycle of development of the Rusts or Brands, an order of fungi, formerly considered independent plants.

; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.

Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.