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Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.

Rendered abortive or sterile; undeveloped; checked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

from the absence of a head or visible organs on the vesicle. These cysts are the immature stages of certain tapeworms. Also applied to similar cysts of different origin.

A group of suctorial Infusoria, which in the adult stage are stationary. See Suctoria.

To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.

A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak.

A female stageplayer; a woman who acts a part.

One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Shak.

capable of long-continued multiplication, in transitory structures, and in those in early stages of degeneration.

A solid hydrocarbon, C6H4.C2H2.C6H4, which accompanies naphthalene in the last stages of the distillation of coal tar. Its chief use is in the artificial production of alizarin. [Written also anthracin.]

Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

Affected with atrophy, as a tissue or organ; arrested in development at a very early stage; rudimentary.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage. Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

Past the middle of life; in the third stage. An autumnal matron. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra.…

The two back seats facing one another on the outside of a stagecoach. [Eng.] Goldsmith. Basket fish (Zoöl.), an ophiuran of the genus Astrophyton, having the arms much branched. See Astrophyton. -- Basket hilt, a hilt with a covering wrought like basketwork to protect the hand. Hudibras. Hence, Baskethilted, a. -- Ba…

rson is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization. "The beatification of his spirit." Jer. Taylor.

The larva of certain starfishes as developed in the free- swimming stage.

That stage in the development of the ovum in which the outer cells of the morula become more defined and form the blastoderm.