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A petrifaction of the human body, or of any portion of it.

ved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

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

ply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

An articular surface on the ilium of birds against which the great trochanter of the femur plays.

An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex of the earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward which the earth is moving in its orbit.

In certain forms of lenses there are two such foci; and it is by taking advantage of this fact that the best aplanatic object glasses of microscopes are constructed.

Designed to facilitate discharges of phlegm or mucus from mouth or nostrils. -- n.

, usually occurring in square prisms or octahedrons with pearly luster on the cleavage surface. It is a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium.

d, or the party to which one has previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.

To seem; to have a certain semblance; to look. They disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Matt. vi. 16.

Having the quality of desiring gratification; as, appetitive power or faculty. Sir M. Hale.

f non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.

The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

Relating to the faculty of apprehension. Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act. Sir W. Hamilton.

approving; an assenting to the propriety of a thing with some degree of pleasure or satisfaction; approval; sanction; commendation. Many . . . joined in a loud hum of approbation. Macaulay. The silent approbation of one's own breast. Melmoth. Animals . . . love approbation or praise. Darwin.