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An alkaloid, prepared from atropine, and from other sources. It is chemically related to atropine, and is used for the same purpose.

Staying at home; not gadding. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. Shak.

In a hopeful manner. Hammond.

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zoöl.), a thrush of Jamaica (Merula leucogenys), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.

pply of provisions. [Obs.] Tell me, softly and hastly, what's in the pantry Small housekeeping enough, said Phoebe. Sir W. Scott.

A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.

Pinnate with a single terminal leaflet.

The act or process of grafting or mending. [Archaic]

o strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon. The cause of reflection is not the impinging of light on the solid or impervious parts of bodies. Sir I. Newton. But, in the present order of things, not to be employed without impinging on God's justice. Bp. Warburton.

The act of impinging.

Striking against or upon.

To fatten; to make fat. [Obs.] Bacon.

The act of making fat, or the state of being fat or fattened. [Obs.]

See Inchpin.

The sweetbread of a deer. Cotgrave.

Below the spine; infraspinate; infraspinous.

Below the spine; infraspinal; esp., below the spine of the scapula; as, the infraspinous fossa; the infraspinate muscle.

A red, gummy, coloring matter, extracted from the colorless juice of the Otaheite chestnut (Inocarpus edulis).

Not to be expected; inconceivable. [Obs.] "Inopinable, incredible . . . saings." Latimer.

Not expected or looked for. [Obs.]