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vored to see to; and yet, asloveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues. Holland.

Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.

That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment. He is the matter of virtue. B. Jonson.

Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak.

edium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure. But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. Bacon. There is a mean in all things. Dryden. The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives. I. T…

to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate. Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first. Pope.

Hence, a part of a whole; an independent constituent of a body; as:

A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

on. All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

ants, the act or process by which are produced all of those chemical changes in the constituents of the plant which are not accompanied by a production of organic matter; metabolism.

To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate. A mingled, imperfect virtue. Rogers.

ht or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson.

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

ertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

sence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.

compared with the hydrogen atom as a standard; the sum of the atomic weights of the constituents of a molecule; thus, the molecular weight of water (H2O) is 18.

Essential element, or constituent element. I shall state the several momenta of the distinction in separate propositions. Sir W. Hamilton.