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Side-fruited; -- said of those true mosses in which the pedicels or the capsules are from lateral archegonia; -- opposed to Ant: acrocarpous.

Of or pertaining to the polariscope; obtained by the use of a polariscope; as, polariscopic observations.

Bearing fruit repeatedly, or year after year.

ular, or overhanging place; an abrupt declivity; a cliff. Where wealth like fruit on precipices grew. Dryden.

Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.

Fit; propitious. [Obs.] E. Hall.

The act of looking forward.

ed by, a pseudoscope; having its parts appearing with the relief reversed; as, a pseudoscopic image.

Pertaining to, or embodying, psilanthropy. "A psilanthropic explanation." Coleridge.

One who gets a living by picking up rags and refuse things in the streets.

Of or pertaining to rhinoscopy.

A genus of beautiful South American passerine birds, including the cock of the rock.

Rock-inhabiting.

Chopped meat, bread, etc., used to stuff legs of veal or other joints; stuffing; farce. Bacon.

Satrapal. [R.]

Suspicious or distrustful of one's self. Baxter.

Half transparent; imperfectly clear; semipellucid.

Of or pertaining to sepia; done in sepia; as, a sepic drawing.

Of or pertaining to sinapine; specifically, designating an acid (C11H12O5) related to gallic acid, and obtained by the decomposition of sinapine, as a white crystalline substance.

Of or pertaining to a spectroscope, or spectroscopy. -- Spec`tro*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.