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Resembling the capitulum of burdock; covered with forked points.

A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine and sulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into the spleen, liver, etc.

Consisting of, or resembling, lard. Lardaceous degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration.

Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceæ) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.

Having a thin face.

A suborder of copepod Crustacea, including a large number of remarkable forms, mostly parasitic on fishes. The young, however, are active and swim freely. See Illustration in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of which the lily, tulip, and hyacinth are well-known examples.

Pertaining to, or like, Limax, or the slugs.

Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants of which the genus Lobelia is the type.

Of the nature of a loment; having fruits like loments.

Belonging, or relating, to the Lycopodiaceæ, an order of cryptogamous plants (called also club mosses) with branching stems, and small, crowded, one-nerved, and usually pointed leaves.

rearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. Chaucer. Death with his mace petrific . . . smote. Milton.

A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, etc. Also, fig., a medley.

Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia. -- n.

The doctrines of Macedonius.

A mace bearer; an officer of a court. P. Plowman.

liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

The act or process of macerating.

A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.