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Opposing or destroying contagion.

Good against convulsions. J. Floyer.

See Projector, below.

An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

Concave on both sides; as, biconcave vertebræ.

Twice paired, as when a petiole forks twice. Gray.

Convex on both sides; as, a biconvex lens.

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.

discovered and named germanium; -- so called because it was a missing analogue of the silicon group. See Germanium, and cf. Ekkabor.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an epicondyle.

A projection on the inner side of the distal end of the numerus; the internal condyle.

an etymological dictionary or manual.

A kind of uptight piano.

A small, flat, wind instrument of music, in which the notes are produced by the vibration of free metallic reeds.

a, in Greece, supposed by the Greeks to be the residence of Apollo and the Muses. From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. Gray.

One of numerous species of Heliconius, a genus of tropical American butterflies. The wings are usually black, marked with green, crimson, and white.

Of or pertaining to Helicon. "Heliconian honey." Tennyson.

An ancient musical instrument played by the action of water; a water organ. [Written also hydraulis.]

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.