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ar tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

barometer the action of which depends on the varying pressure of the atmosphere upon the elastic top of a metallic box (shaped like a watch) from which the air has been exhausted. An index shows the variation of pressure.

Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets. Bacon.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

of pier produced by thickening a wall at its termination, treated architecturally as a pilaster, with capital and base.

The last syllable of a word except two, as -syl in monosyllable.

Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

ng from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

ered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

The cutting off, or omission, of the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

tive; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person. Yet God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied. Milton.

ing the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

Applied to a gastrula when the blastorope does not entirely up.

celsians) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or plastic power of the old philosophers. [Obs.] Johnson.

A metal-hubbed wheel of great strength and elasticity, esp. adapted for artillery carriages and motor cars.

The person or thing arriving or which has arrived; as, news brought by the last arrival. Another arrival still more important was speedily announced. Macaulay.