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A medicinal tablet or lozenge; strictly, one of circular form.

A foot of two syllables, the first long and the second short, as in the Latin word ante, or the first accented and the second unaccented, as in the English word motion; a choreus.

bers, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy." Rochester. Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea) with bladderlike seed pods. -- Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with inflated seed pods. -- Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea),…

A pastil or troche, composed of various aromatic and other ingredients, highly celebrated in India as an antidote, and as a stomachic and antispasmodic.

An ornamental stitch like the links of a chain; -- used in crocheting, sewing, and embroidery.

a trochee.

which the first and last are long, and the other short (- ~ ~ -); that is, a choreus, or trochee, and an iambus united.

A high, steep rock; a precipice. Cliff swallow (Zoöl.), a North American swallow (Petrochelidon lunifrons), which builds its nest against cliffs; the eaves swallow.

A croche, or knob, on the top of a stag's antler. The antlers and the crockets. W. Black.

Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.

y. They are related to the pelicans. -- Frigate mackerel (Zoöl.), an oceanic fish (Auxis Rochei) of little or no value as food, often very abundant off the coast of the United States. -- Frigate pelican. (Zoöl.) Same as Frigate bird.

he necessary burden of villainy. Rambler. Hypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue. La Rochefoucauld (Trans. ).

hematics to the human body, and hence were eager student of anatomy; -- opposed to the iatrochemists.

o swear at. In vain we blast the ministers of Fate, And the forlorn physicians imprecate. Rochester.

Composed of dactyls and trochees so arranged as to produce a movement like that of ordinary speech.

and by means of which knots or loops are formed in the process of netting, knitting, or crocheting.

An aromatic or medicated lozenge; a troche.

constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. Andrews.

uarter note (Mus.), a note equal in duration to half a minim or a fourth of semibreve; a crochet. -- Quarter pieces (Naut.), several pieces of timber at the after- part of the quarter gallery, near the taffrail. Totten. -- Quarter point. (Naut.) See Quarter, n., 1 (n). -- Quarter railing, or Quarter rails (Naut.), n…