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Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

Athermanous.

Shaped like an ear of grain.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

Of, pertaining to, or having the nature of, atheroma. Wiseman.

To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.

A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. Milton.

Authentic. [Archaic]

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

Authentically.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

The doctrine of God's self-existence. [R.]

One given to self-worship. [R.]

On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.