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Gradually decreasing; past the acme, or crisis, as a distemper. Dunglison.

Coaptation. [Obs.] Dunglison.

m anything; -- followed by off or away; as; to pare off the ring of fruit; to pare away redundancies.

A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.

rts one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower.

ering day. Milton. Peering in maps for ports, and piers, and roads. Shak. As if through a dungeon grate he peered. Coleridge.

seapens and related kinds. They are able to move about by means of the hollow muscular peduncle, which also serves to support them upright in the mud. See Pennatula, and Illust. under Alcyonaria.

Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and kind; without flaw, fault, or blemish; without error; mature; whole; pure; sound; right; correct. My strength is made perfect in weakness. 2 Cor. xii. 9. Three glorious sun…

Inflammation of the pericardium. Dunglison.

A table or other means for calculating the periodical functions of women. Dunglison.

Redundant or excessive in words. [R.]

A stalk or peduncle.

petrify the heart. Young. "Petrifying accuracy." Sir W. Scott. And petrify a genius to a dunce. Pope. The poor, petrified journeyman, quite unconscious of what he was doing. De Quincey. A hideous fatalism, which ought, logically, to petrify your volition. G. Eliot.

branch of pharmacology which considers the mode of action, and the effects, of medicines. Dunglison.

A medicine or drug; also, a poison. Dunglison.

A chemical laboratory. [Obs.] Dunglison.

A treatise on phthisis. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to pigments; furnished with pigments. Dunglison. Pigmentary degeneration (Med.), a morbid condition in which an undue amount of pigment is deposited in the tissues.

Plastic force. Dunglison.