Search the Dictionary

A verse wanting two syllables at its termination.

A kind of coarse brocade, or figured fabric, used chiefly for tapestry, linings for carriages, etc.

Same as Brocatel.

The process of chenge into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone and teeth; abnormally, as in calcareous degeneration of tissue.

Production of heat, esp. animal heat.

The office of a canon; a canonry.

The practice of hanging, upon the cultivated fig tree, branches of the wild fig infested with minute hymenopterous insects.

are so exaggerated as to appear ridiculous; a burlesque; a parody. [Formerly written caricatura.] The truest likeness of the prince of French literature will be the one that has most of the look of a caricature. I. Taylor. A grotesque caricature of virtue. Macaulay.

One who caricatures.

The act or process of turning to flesh, or to a substance resembling flesh.

The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.

A plowland; as much land as one team can plow in a year and a day; -- by some said to be about 100 acres. Burrill.

To make a hundredfold; to repeat a hundred times. [R.] Howell.

A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior.

The act of certifying.

The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.

Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.

The formation of chyle. See Chylifaction.

Chylifactive.

The conversion of food into chyme by the digestive action of gastric juice.