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scles, the globular dilatations, containing the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary tubules of the kidney. Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery.

st doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes.

d flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.

A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.

The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion; specif., the waist. Chaucer. "The middle of the land." Judg. ix. 37. In this, as in most questions of state, there…

Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used…

Sending forth; emitting. [Obs.] Wiseman.

9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).

To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.

Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.

The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.

ay or channel for commerce or communication; to sail. The Phenicians navigated to the extremities of the Western Ocean. Arbuthnot.

rial (usually reduced silver), and the dark portions by the uncovered and transparent or semitransparent ground of the picture.

A white crystalline semitransparent salt; potassium nitrate; saltpeter. See Saltpeter.

The prominent part of the face or anterior extremity of the head containing the nostrils and olfactory cavities; the olfactory organ. See Nostril, and Olfactory organ under Olfactory.

d eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.

Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor; fragrant; sweet-smelling. "Odorous bloom." Keble. Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser. -- O"dor*ous*ly, adv. -- O"dor*ous*ness, n.

One of a pair of scent organs which the larvæ of certain butterflies emit from the first body segment, either above or below.