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nd reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

The hypoptilum.

A name given to two species of the genus Smyrnium, formerly cultivated and used as celery now is; -- called also horse parsely.

The office of an almoner.

A word used to describe the character Halliwell.

The faculty of perceiving; a percipient. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

ce; direct or simple perception. [Obs.] The soul is the sole percipient which hath animadversion and sense, properly so called. Glanvill.

nvill. I do not mean there is a certain number of ideas glaring and shining to the animadversive faculty. Coleridge.

Annually. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Returning with the year, at a stated time; annual; yearly; as, an anniversary feast. Anniversary day (R. C. Ch.). See Anniversary, n., 2. -- Anniversary week, that week in the year in which the annual meetings of religious and benevolent societies are held in Boston and New York. [Eastern U. S.]

Anniversary. [Obs.] Dryden.

A displacement of an organ, esp. of the uterus, in such manner that its whole axis is directed further forward than usual.

The art or skill of an archer.

rges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

An aspergill.

The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.