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The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.

measured from some standard temperature and pressure. Sometimes called the thermodynamic function. The entropy of the universe tends towards a maximum. Clausius.

Growing upon flowers; -- said of certain species of fungi.

A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.

Elegiac; funereal.

l distinct keys; one whose intervals, being all minor thirds, do not clearly indicate its fundamental tone or root; the chord of the diminished triad, and the diminished seventh.

Potential energy; negative value of the force function.

als, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

A diseased condition produced by eating rye affected with the ergot fungus.

Affected with the ergot fungus; as, ergotized rye.

By metonymy, the office or functions of a judge, whose state robe, lined with ermine, is emblematical of purity and honor without stain. Chatham.

Breaking out; -- said of certain fungi which burst through the texture of leaves.

to; -- used esp. with reference to journeys or excursions on land; as, to escort a public functionary, or a lady; to escort a baggage wagon.

Original or fundamental signification. [R.] Given as the etymon or genuine sense of the word. Coleridge.

The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of two equal and symmetrical halves. Syd. Soc. Lex.

erior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the fetus, but is rudimentary and functionless in the adult.

Healthy nutrition; soundless as regards the nutritive functions.

Good news; announcement of glad tidings; especially, the gospel, or a gospel. Milton. Her funeral anthem is a glad evangel. Whittier.

Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. "The funeral evengreens entwine." Keble.

us in structure, and from the single and simple to the diverse and manifold in quality or function. The pocess is by some limited to organic beings; by others it is applied to the inorganic and the psychical. It is also applied to explain the existence and growth of institutions, manners, language, civilization, and ev…