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A perfumed unguent, salve, or draught; something very pleasing to the taste or smell. Spenser.

by simply removing what is erroneous, corrupt, superfluous, faulty, and the like;

Having perfect and staminate flowers on different plants. -- An`dro*di*o"cism, -di*e"cism (#), n.

veral East Indian species, as A. nardus and A. schonanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery.

The process used to render glass, iron, etc., less brittle, performed by allowing them to cool very gradually from a high heat.

a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly. The annual overflowing of the river [Nile]. Ray.

shells, allied to the oyster, so called from their unequal valves, of which the lower is perforated for attachment.

An antimask. [Obs. or R.] Performed by knights and ladies of his court In nature of an antic. Ford.

opposite or contrary. Can there be a greater contrariety unto Christ's judgment, a more perfect antipodes to all that hath hitherto been gospel Hammond.

at system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Aside; away. "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness." Jas. i. 21. Let Pleasure go, put Care apart. Keble.

An opening; an open space; a gap, cleft, or chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

ce of the crystalline lens, as after operations for cataract. The remedy is the use of powerful convex lenses. Dunglison.

A beautiful butterfly (Argunnis Aphrodite) of the United States.

A crystalline alkaloid obtained from morphia. It is a powerful emetic.

A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposed to Perforata.

An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition." Milton. I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak.

Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism. These lacteals have mouths, and by animal selection or appetency th…

one from getting at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry.