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Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.

In a despicable or mean manner; contemptibly; as, despicably stingy.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or affected with, an ægilops, or tumor in the corner of the eye.

Epic. -- Ep"ic*al*ly, adv. Poems which have an epical character. Brande & C. His [Wordsworth's] longer poems (miscalled epical). Lowell.

Of or relating to the epicardium.

That of the pericardium which forms the outer surface of the heart; the cardiac pericardium.

An isopod crustacean, parasitic on shrimps.

The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripened ovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.

Diverging from, or lacking conformity to, a type.

Beyond or outside of the tropics. Whewell.

See Haruspicy. Tylor.

Same as Homotypal.

Dropsical, or resembling dropsy. Every lust is a kind of hydropic distemper, and the more we drink the more we shall thirst. Tillotson.

In a hydropical manner.

Inauspicious [Obs.] Sir G. Buck.

Situated between or within the tropics. J. Morse.

Within the tropics.

Of, pertaining to, or formed by, a kaleidoscope; variegated.

Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to microscopic. -- Mac`ro*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.