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; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

n oak (Bot.), the poison ivy; also, the more shrubby Rhus diversiloba of California and Oregon. Poison sac. (Zoöl.) Same as Poison gland, above. See Illust. under Fang. -- Poison sumac (Bot.), a poisonous shrub of the genus Rhus (R. venenata); -- also called poison ash, poison dogwood, and poison elder. It has pinnate…

A lake whitefish (Coregonus pollan), native of Ireland. In appearance it resembles a herring.

Weight; gravity. [R.] Gregory.

To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate. Postiling and allegorizing on Scripture. J. H. Newman.

A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.

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, design, or business; something introductory or preparatory; as, the preliminaries to a negotiation or duel; to take one's preliminaries the year before entering college.

Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly. Presto! begone! 'tis here again. Swift.

A hydrous borate of lime, from Oregon.

to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna. Gregory. Bitter principle, Principle of contradiction, etc. See under Bitter, Contradiction, etc.

Not publicly known; not open; secret; as, a private negotiation; a private understanding.

as to state secrets; also, by statute, clergymen and physicans are placed in the same category, so far as concerns information received by them professionally.

A service book relating to ecclesiastical processions. J. Gregory.

ciently deemed prodigies. So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.

In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.

A preliminary document upon the basis of which negotiations are carried on.

A negotiator; a factor. [R.] Dr. H. More.

The action of a go-between or broker in negotiating immoral bargains between the sexes; procuring.

e indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument. Story. -- Qualified negative (Legislation), a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills…