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of Last, to endure. Chaucer.

A workman whose business it is to shape boots or shoes, or place leather smoothly, on lasts; a tool for stretching leather on a last.

A red color.[Obs.] Spenser.

Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.

In a lasting manner.

In the last place; in conclusion.

Non-germinal.

A provisional name for a plant which has not had its flowers botanically examined, and therefore has not been referred to its proper genus.

w, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

Segmenting unequally; -- said of telolecithal ova with complete segmentation.

Starch-forming; amylogenic.

Produced by the refraction of light, as seen through water; as, anaclastic curves.

That part of optics which treats of the refraction of light; -- commonly called dioptrics. Encyc. Brit.

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

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

A feldspar closely related to orthoclase, but triclinic. It is chiefly a silicate of sodium, potassium, and aluminium. Sp. gr., 2.57 -- 2.60.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

Causing a diminution or a suppression of the secretion of milk.

Diminishing plasticity.