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One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.

Containing, or tending to, exaggeration; exaggerative. Johnson.

One who exonerates or frees from obligation.

Having a tendency to form ulcers; rendering ulcerous.

One who, or that which, generates, begets, causes, or produces.

A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of…

Of or pertaining to the title or office of imperator. "Imperatorial laurels." C. Merivale.

Imperial. [R.] Gauden.

Imperative. [R.]

One who incarcerates.

uction motor and driven above synchronous speed, thus acting as an alternating-current generator; - - called also asynchronous generator. Below synchronism the machine takes in electrical energy and acts as an induction motor; at synchronism the power component of current becomes zero and changes sign, so that above sy…

Between atoms; situated, or acting, between the atoms of bodies; as, interatomic forces.

See Keratose.

Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.

Same as Keratosa.

An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.