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In an irreparable manner.

transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called meroz…

A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic (#), a.

Neglect or failure to prepare; want of preparation.

To exceed in the number of mistresses. [R.] Shak.

An artifical division of vertebrates, including those that lay eggs; -opposed to Vivipara.

rrots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

se, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

nding to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory. Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South.

By way of preparation.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.

previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.

A woman who bears a child for the first time.

oung are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.

The quality or state of being reparable.

e of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

In a reparable manner.

he act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used. Arbuthnot.