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A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides of an axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.

Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

Gently opening the bowels; laxative. -- n.

A comprehensive maxim or principle expressed in a few words; a sharply defined sentence relating to abstract truth rather than to practical matters. The first aphorism of Hippocrates is, "Life is short, and the art is long." Fleming.

Rearing of bees for their honey and wax.

f the processes of the shell which project inwards and unite with one another, in the thorax of many Crustacea.

ructive saying; a terse remark, conveying some important truth; a sententious precept or maxim.

to some concrete case. -- Applicate ordinate, right line applied at right angles to the axis of any conic section, and bounded by the curve.

In a curve referred to polar coördinates, any point for which the radius vector is a maximum or minimum.

An axle or spindle of a wheel or opinion.

having white or usually rose- colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

The grand marshal of the old German empire, a dignity that to the Elector of Saxony.

A slender part of an instrument or machine, projecting from a trunk, axis, or fulcrum; as, the arm of a steelyard.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

Aromatic. [Obs.] Caxton.

has been paid; arrearage; -- commonly used in the plural, as, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.

A kind of heavily built dished wheel with a long axle box, used on gun carriages, usually having 14 spokes and 7 felloes; hence, a wheel of similar construction for use on automobiles, etc.

. Smollett. The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. Gibbon.

te pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana). Prickly ash (Zanthoxylum Americanum) and Poison ash (Rhus venenata) are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. -- Mountain ash. See R…