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A prayer; a supplication. [Poetic] Chaucer. Shak. Lowly they bowed, adoring, and began Their orisons, each morning duly paid. Milton.

To take away; to remove. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. Sir M. Hale.

; or, he came out from the ship, meeting, sect, party, etc. Out is used in a variety of applications, as: --

or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.

An apparatus or agent for the production or application of ozone.

The same prepared with a vehicle, as oil, water with gum, or the like, for application to a surface.

A medicinal preparation spread upon paper, intended for external application; as, cantharides paper.

Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. Harte.

A capsule of gelatin or similar substance containing some liquid for medicinal application, as ether.

er; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. "Perplexd beyond self- explication." Shak. We are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cor. iv. 8. We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. Locke.

The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. Milton.

A prayer; a supplication; an imploration; an entreaty; especially, a request of a solemn or formal kind; a prayer to the Supreme Being, or to a person of superior power, rank, or authority; also, a single clause in such a prayer. A house of prayer and petition for thy people. 1 Macc. vii. 37. This last petition heard o…

The act of presenting apetition; a supplication.

The application of light for therapeutic purposes, esp. for treating diseases of the skin. -- Pho`to*the*rap"ic (#), Pho`to*ther`a*peu"tic (#), a.

A disease (morbus pediculous) consisting in the excessive multiplication of lice on the human body.

A specific internal application for the cure or relief of sickness; a remedy for disease; a medicine.

put a rod in pickle, to prepare a particular reproof, punishment, or penalty for future application.

An external application of a consistency harder than ointment, prepared for use by spreading it on linen, leather, silk, or other material. It is adhesive at the ordinary temperature of the body, and is used, according to its composition, to produce a medicinal effect, to bind parts together, etc.; as, a porous plaster…

To use in a droll manner; to give a droll expression or application to; as, to play upon words.

her; to urge reasons for or against a thing; to attempt to persuade one by argument or supplication; to speak by way of persuasion; as, to plead for the life of a criminal; to plead with a judge or with a father. O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbor! Job xvi. 21.…