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s normal, in distinction from dyspnæa, in which the blood is insufficiently arterialized. Foster.

Belonging to, or contained in, the gospel; evangelical. "Evangelic truth." J. Foster.

To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard. Thou shalt feed people Israel. 2 Sam. v. 2. Mightiest powers by deepest calms are feed. B. Cornwall.

To cherish with heat; to foster. [Obs.] Which these soft fires . . . foment and warm. Milton.

ed abandoned; lost. Of fortune and of hope at once forlorn. Spenser. Some say that ravens foster forlorn children. Shak.

To act as godfather to; to take under one's fostering care. [R.] Burke.

To place in a pasture; to foster. [R.] T. Adams.

age taken out of a pool to pay for refreshments, or for the expenses of the table. R. F. Foster.

axiom of some political economists, deprecating interference of government by attempts to foster or regulate commerce, manufactures, etc., by bounty or by restriction; as, the doctrine of laissez faire; the laissez faire system government.

one sits down; that part of the person thus covered; figuratively, a place of rearing and fostering; as, to be reared in the lap of luxury. Men expect that happiness should drop into their laps. Tillotson.

commonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duck-ling, dosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

on; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.

of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.

e mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell. Foster.

To nurse; to lead or teach; to foster; to nuzzle. [Obs.] If any man use the Scripture . . . to nosel thee in anything save in Christ, he is a false prophet. Tyndale.

To supply the means of support and increase to; to encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish the virtues. "Nourish their contentions." Hooker.

One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, fosters, or the like. The nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise. Burke.

The place where anything is fostered and growth promoted. "Fair Padua, nursery of arts." Shak. Christian families are the nurseries of the church on earth, as she is the nursery of the church in heaven. J. M. Mason.

To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up. [Obs.] The people had been nuzzled in idolatry. Milton.

itrogen truly excreted by the body, besides a large quantity of saline matters and water. Foster.