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Of or pertaining to the mammæ or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

Of or relating to coins or money.

Worthy of the palm; palmy; preëminent; superior; principal; chief; as, palmary work. Br. Horne.

opment or in intention; primitive; fundamental; original. The church of Christ, in its primary institution. Bp. Pearson. These I call original, or primary, qualities of body. Locke.

used in cookery, perfumery, etc., and is an emblem of fidelity or constancy. There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Shak. Marsh rosemary. (a) A little shrub (Andromeda polifolia) growing in cold swamps and having leaves like those of the rosemary. (b) See under Marsh. -- Rosemary pine, the loblolly pine. See under…

An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; a testicle.

Situated under the mammæ; as, submammary inflammation.

ed into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts.

nce of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay…

itself the essential qualities of a larger thing or of several things. Specifically: A summary or an epitome, as of a treatise or book, or of a statement; a brief. An abstract of every treatise he had read. Watts. Man, the abstract Of all perfection, which the workmanship Of Heaven hath modeled. Ford.…

Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.

Familiar through use; usual; customary. "An accustomed action." Shak.

Free from color; transmitting light without decomposing it into its primary colors.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

The plant costmary, which was formerly much used for flavoring ale.

ect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

In an alphabetic manner; in the customary order of the letters.