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An instrument for scraping the periosteum from bones; a raspatory.

imposed, weight; an arching downward in the middle, as of a ship after straining. Cf. Hogging.

To make fat; to pamper. [R.] "Many a saginated boar." Cowper.

The act of fettening or pampering. [R.] Topsell.

Growing in brackish places or in salt marches.

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

lling the exhaust gases from the cylinder by some special means, as, in many four-cycle engines, by utilizing the momentum of the exhaust gases in a long exhaust pipe.

The quality or state of being scraggy; scraggedness.

. alcicornis, of the West Indies and Florida. So called because it stings the tongue like ginger. See Illust. under Millepore.

A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories.

Beginning wwith, or springing from, one's self.

See Radial engine, above.

A substance extracted from the rootstock of the Polygala Senega (Seneca root), and probably identical with polygalic acid.

A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.

Creeping; -- said of lesions which heal over one portion while continuing to advance at another.

The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Made of fine wheat. [Obs.] Bailey.

from Sing, v. Singing bird. (Zoöl.) (a) Popularly, any bird that sings; a song bird. (b) Specifically, any one of the Oscines. -- Singing book, a book containing music for singing; a book of tunes. -- Singing falcon or hawk. (Zoöl.) See Chanting falcon, under Chanting. -- Singing fish (Zoöl.), a California toadfish…

With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North (1575).

Quality of being slangy.