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staff officer of an army, through whom the commanding general receives communications and issues military orders. In the U. S. army he is brigadier general. (b) (Among the Jesuits), one of a select number of fathers, who resided with the general of the order, each of whom had a province or country assigned to his care.…

striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are to be encountered, and the issue is staked upon unforeseen events; a daring feat. He loved excitement and adventure. Macaulay.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

To give forth; to supply, yield, or produce as the natural result, fruit, or issue; as, grapes afford wine; olives afford oil; the earth affords fruit; the sea affords an abundant supply of fish.

A cavity in the cellular tissue of plants, containing air only.

class of organic principles (called also proteids) which form the main part of organized tissues. Brunton.

A second or further writ which is issued after a first writ has expired without effect.

An organic base, especially one of a class of substances occurring ready formed in the tissues of plants and the bodies of animals.

e-shaped; swelling. Kirby. Ampullaceous sac (Zoöl.), one of the peculiar cavities in the tissues of sponges, containing the zooidal cells.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

Dropsy of the subcutaneous cellular tissue; an effusion of serum into the cellular substance, occasioning a soft, pale, inelastic swelling of the skin.

ry, therefore, being built partly, and some of it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of lies. De Quincey.

Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

ch opposes the action of another medicine or of a poison when absorbed into the blood or tissues.

the product of a specific micro-organism and sometimes naturally present in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

future or unknown; being in painful suspense; -- applied to persons; as, anxious for the issue of a battle.

The result or issue. [Obs.]

Relating to an issue of fulfillment. In this way a passage in the Old Testament may have, or rather comprise, an apotelesmatic sense, i. e., one of after or final accomplishment. M. Stuart.

first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the surface of an organ into solid unorganized substance.