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A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopoeia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.

To wrest from the true meaning; to pervert; as, to distort passages of Scripture, or their meaning.

A double reading, or twofold interpretation, as of a Scripture text. [R.]

A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testament portion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament at Douai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since…

the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

k penny, an allowance, or perquisite, given to buy drink; a gratuity. -- Drink offering (Script.), an offering of wine, etc., in the Jewish religious service. -- In drink, drunk. "The poor monster's in drink." Shak. -- Strong drink, intoxicating liquor; esp., liquor containing a large proportion of alcohol. " Wine i…

corresponds to something else; another, correspondent to the first; hence, a copy; a transcript; a counterpart. I send a duplicate both of it and my last dispatch. Sir W. Temple.

; to render illegible or indiscernible; as, to efface the letters on a monument, or the inscription on a coin.

One of the principal names by which God is designated in the Hebrew Scriptures.

The general description of embryos.

To cut with a graving instrument in order to form an inscription or pictorial representation; to carve figures; to mark with incisions. Like . . . . a signet thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel. Ex. xxviii. 11.

uminating or ornamenting with colored and decorated letters and figures, as a book or manuscript. [R.] Palsgrave.

To deposit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestinal glands.

A treatise upon, or description of, the intestines; enterology.

An explanatory or commendatory postscript to a poem, essay, or book; -- also in the French from, l'envoi. The envoy of a ballad is the "sending" of it forth. Skeat.

Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication.

The science of inscriptions; the art of engraving inscriptions or of deciphering them.

An inscription on, or at, a tomb, or a grave, in memory or commendation of the one buried there; a sepulchral inscription. Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb. Shak.

man family, developing the details with which ethnology as a comparative science deals; descriptive ethnology. See Ethnology.