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course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement. He prevaricates with his own understanding. South.

To indicate as future; to foretell from signs or symptoms; to prophesy; to foreshow; to predict; as, to prognosticate evil. Burke. I neither will nor can prognosticate To the young gaping heir his father's fate. Dryden.

To make prolific; to fertilize; to impregnate. Sir T. Browne.

, or designating, an organic acid which is obtained as a white crystalline substance from catechin, asafetida, oil of cloves, etc., and by distillation itself yields pyrocatechin.

A silicate formed with the lowest proportion of silicic acid, or having but one atom of silicon in the molecule.

A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.

To make smooth with pumice. [R.]

ries, found in various plants; -- so called because first obtained by distillation of gum catechu. Called also catechol, oxyphenol. etc.

A salt of pyromucic acid.

Having four forks, or branches.

Having four hoofs; as, a quadrisulcate foot; a quadrisulcate animal.

Fourfold; doubled twice; four times repeated; as, a quadruplicate ratio, or a quadruplicate proportion.

Radicated.

Rooted; specifically:

he preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that of bonds or other securities.

ually; to make return for; to give in return; to unterchange; to alternate; as, to reciprocate favors. Cowper.

Double; doubled; reduplicative; repeated.

To hypothecate again. -- Re`hy*poth`e*ca"tion, n.

To locate again.

To chew or masticate again; to chew over and over, as the cud.