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Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

g, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.

A sensitized paper for obtaining positives by artificial light. It is coated with gelatin containing silver bromide and chloride. [Eng.]

ted; the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d, and in English in-ter-vene, are examples of anapests.

Pertaining to an anapest; consisting of an anapests; as, an anapestic meter, foot, verse. -- n.

Anapestic.

The common recoil escapement.

The outer part of the west end of a collegiate or other chapel. Shipley.

Paper impregnated with saltpeter. The fumes from the burning paper are often inhaled as an alleviative by asthmatics.

To confound; to terrify; to amaze. [Obs.] Spenser.

Shaped like an awl.

A piece of linen about 1 ft. 8 in. wide by 213 ft. long, covered with embroidery representing the incidents of William the Conqueror's expedition to England, preserved in the town museum of Bayeux in Normandy. It is probably of the 11th century, and is attributed by tradition to Matilda, the Conqueror's wife.…

A deciduous plant of warm climates, generally with fleshy leaves and flowers of a yellow or whitish yellow color, of the genus Zygophyllum.

To jape; to laugh at; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Having the shape of a widemouthed bell; campanulate.

See Neaped.

A kind of thick, bibulous, unsized paper, used to absorb superfluous ink from freshly written manuscript, and thus prevent blots.

See Cymbiform.

Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.

A sensitized paper coated with gelatin impregnated with bromide of silver, used in contact printing and in enlarging.