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A product of gastric and pancreatic digestion, differing from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song. It was customary, on some occasions, to dance round the altars whilst they sang the sacred hymns, which consisted of three stanzas or parts…

The Destroyer; -- a name used (Rev. ix. 11) for the angel of the bottomless pit, answering to the Hebrew Abaddon.

regret for it, by way of amends; -- with for; as, my correspondent apologized for not answering my letter. To apologize for his insolent language. Froude.

ng small appendages; forming an appendage. Appendiculate leaf, a small appended leaf. Withering.

The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.

fore part of the body, to keep the clothes clean, to defend them from injury, or as a covering. It is commonly tied at the waist by strings.

Wateriness. [Obs.]

Wateriness.

The condition of being wet or watery; wateriness. Huxley. Very little water or aquosity is found in their belly. Holland.

icularly and outcast boy or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

A mineral identical in composition with calcite or carbonate of lime, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters.

bills of exchange (see Arbitration of Exchange); also, a traffic in stocks which bear differing values at the same time in different markets.

A fossil bird, of the Jurassic period, remarkable for having a long tapering tail of many vertebræ with feathers along each side, and jaws armed with teeth, with other reptilian characteristics.

op; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal authority in his own diocese.

dium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

A superintendent of several monasteries, corresponding to superior abbot, or father provincial, in the Roman Catholic church.

rchitecture, or makes it his occupation to form plans and designs of buildings, and to superintend the artificers employed.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

A battering-ram.