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An unorganized amylolytic ferment, on enzyme, present in human mixed saliva and in the saliva of some animals.

Salivation, or an excessive flow of saliva. Quain.

A ptysmagogue.

iding or procuring; providence; foresight; preparation; management. Chaucer. The ill purveyance of his page. Spenser.

A form of blood poisoning produced by the absorption into the blood of morbid matters usually originating in a wound or local inflammation. It is characterized by the development of multiple abscesses throughout the body, and is attended with irregularly recurring chills, fever, profuse sweating, and exhaustion.…

Of or pertaining to pyæmia; of the nature of pyæmia.

d sores, supposed to be formed through the agency of a species of bacterium (Bacillus pyocyaneus).C13H10N2O

Wharfage. [Also keyage.]

The more ancient of the two great epic poems in Sanskrit. The hero and heroine are Rama and his wife Sita.

A person not a Mohammedan, who pays the capitation tax. [Turkey.]

Act of reconveying.

Capable of being, or proper to be , repaid; due; as, a loan repayable in ten days; services repayable in kind.

the yarn or thread of any stuff of which the strands of a rope are made.

gly; pertaining to the crown or the sovereign; suitable for a king or queen; regal; as, royal power or prerogative; royal domains; the royal family; royal state.

A spade when spades are trumps under the condition that every trick over six taken by the successful bidder has a score value of 9; -- usually in pl.

A petty or powerless king. [R.] there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by his leave. Fuller.

the principles or conduct of royalists.

Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government. Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed. Waller.

The act of making loyal to a king. [R.] Saintsbury.