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by the Turks, A.D. 1453. -- Byzantine historians, historians and writers (Zonaras, Procopius, etc.) who lived in the Byzantine empire. P. Cyc. Byzantine style (Arch.), a style of architecture developed in the Byzantine empire.

A plant of the genus Scorpiurus, with pods resembling caterpillars. Caterpillar catcher, or Caterpillar eater (Zoöl.), a bird belonging to the family of Shrikes, which feeds on caterpillars. The name is also given to several other birds. -- Caterpillar hunter (Zoöl.), any species of beetles of the genus Callosoma and…

A plant of the Parsley family (Apium graveolens), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad.

An extract or preparation of opium, used in China and India for smoking. Balfour.

A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., are transported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.

A patent anodyne medicine, containing opium, chloroform, Indian hemp, etc.

One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance, C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, but much feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.

n of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VIL and Bonaparte in

An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. Bacon.

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

To put off; to delay to act; to wait. Pius was able to defer and temporize at leisure. J. A. Symonds.

To deprive of narcotine; as, to denarcotize opium. -- De*nar`co*ti*za"tion, n.

merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great deserts to Rome. Shak. His reputation falls far below his desert. A. Hamilton.

Any thick liquid or pasty preparation, as of opium for medicinal purposes, of grease for a lubricant, etc.

Causing sleep; as, the dormitive properties of opium. Clarke. -- n. (Med.)

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

Same as Entropium.

Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. Dana.

The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.