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The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

Not pervious to heat.

Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

Perception by the senses; feeling; -- the opposite of anæsthesia.

An instrument to measure the degree of sensation, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Sensuous perception. [R.] Ruskin.

Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.

One who makes much or overmuch of æsthetics. [Recent]

Of or Pertaining to æsthetics; versed in æsthetics; as, æsthetic studies, emotions, ideas, persons, etc. -- Æs*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.

One versed in æsthetics.

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

See Ether.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

The worship of strange gods. Jer. Taylor.

A genus of plants of the Mallow family. It includes the officinal marsh mallow, and the garden hollyhocks.

Asparagine.

All together; conjointly. [Obs.] Altogether they wenChaucer.