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An explosive consisting of ammonium nitrate, a derivative of nitrobenzene, chlorated napthalene, and wood meal.

An elevation of mind to things celestial.

ipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

Of or relating to anatomy or dissection; as, the anatomic art; anatomical observations. Hume.

act of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

of plants of the Ranunculus or Crowfoot family; windflower. Some of the species are cultivated in gardens.

An umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella anisum) growing naturally in Egypt, and cultivated in Spain, Malta, etc., for its carminative and aromatic seeds.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

The upward elevation of the crust of the earth, resulting from a geanticlinal.

The curved elevation of the cartilage of the ear, within or in front of the helix. See Ear.

sation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

A remedy against excessive salivation.

ned for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair."…

Having two or more parts of different curvatures, so combined as to remove spherical aberration; -- said of a lens. Aplanatic focus of a lens (Opt.), the point or focus from which rays diverging pass the lens without spherical aberration. In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage…

Partial privation or suspension of breath; suffocation.

ébus. The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed of the noblest representations of the human frame.

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.

To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person of felony.