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The serum of blood rendered antitoxic to a venom by repeated injections of small doses of the venom.

Opposition to vivisection.

One opposed to vivisection

Preventing fermentation.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

ng the qualities of adamant; incapable of being broken, dissolved, or penetrated; as, adamantine bonds or chains.

See Inulin.

A substance produced by acting upon uric with warm and very dilute nitric acid.

Rather quicker than andante; between that allegretto.

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. [R.] Dr. H. More.

cean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceæ, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.

Missing; wanting. [Prov. Scot. & Eng.] Sir W. Hamilton.

Bacchanalian.

food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

Same as Barkentine.

See Byzantine.

Pertaining to Brabant, an ancient province of the Netherlands.