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Of or pertaining to palms; of the nature of, or resembling, palms.

to the art of preparing medicines according to the rules or formulas of pharmacy; as, pharmaceutical preparations. -- Phar`ma*ceu"tic*al*ly, adv. Pharmaceutical chemistry, that department of chemistry which ascertains or regulates the composition of medicinal substances.

The science of preparing medicines.

One skilled in pharmacy; a druggist. See the Note under Apothecary.

The substance of apples, or of similar fruit, crushed by grinding.

Pertaining to the Pomacentridæ, a family of bright-colored tropical fishes having spiny opercula; -- often called coral fishes.

Like pomace.

Same as Pomace.

The cat-tail.

ereal salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin. Spermaceti whale (Zoöl.), the sperm whale.

Squamose.

Somewhat glumaceous.

Of or pertaining to a suborder of urticaceous plants, of which the elm is the type.

g to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

onds. -- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained from bitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde. -- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene. -- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond. -- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of a light green o…

to a seed, as the loose, transparent bag inclosing the seed or the white water lily. The mace of the nutmeg is also an aril. Gray.

l originating from the micropyle instead of from the funicle or chalaza of the ovule. The mace of the nutmeg is an arillode.

ay be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

oily fluid, which, after death, concretes into a whitish crystalline substance called spermaceti. See Sperm whale.

immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.