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A formative particle of albuminous matter; a monad; a cytode. See the Note under Morphon. Haeckel.

One of the small particles or organic molecules of protoplasm. Haeckel.

One who plates or coats articles with gold or silver; as, a silver plater.

A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

s of the anthers of flowers. See Flower, and Illust. of Filament. Pollen grain (Bot.), a particle or call of pollen. -- Pollen mass, a pollinium. Gray. -- Pollen sac, a compartment of an anther containing pollen, -- usually there are four in each anther. -- Pollen tube, a slender tube which issues from the pollen gr…

An article of dress for women, consisting of a body and an outer skirt in one piece.

A minute opening or passageway; an interstice between the constituent particles or molecules of a body; as, the pores of stones.

ilable matter by a public post. Postage stamp, a government stamp required to be put upon articles sent by mail in payment of the postage, esp. an adhesive stamp issued and sold for that purpose.

A word or particle placed after, or at the end of, another word; - - distinguished from preposition.

To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.

The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. Grind their bones to powder small. Shak.

or business; prefatory; as, preliminary observations to a discourse or book; preliminary articles to a treaty; preliminary measures; preliminary examinations.

onnect a noun or a pronoun, in an adjectival or adverbial sense, with some other word; a particle used with a noun or pronoun (in English always in the objective case) to make a phrase limiting some other word; -- so called because usually placed before the word with which it is phrased; as, a bridge of iron; he comes…

Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.

An upright case or closet for the safe keeping of articles; as, a clothes press. Shak.

To publish a book or an article. From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth. Pope.

privation or negation; giving a negative force to a word; as, alpha privative; privative particles; -- applied to such prefixes and suffixes as a- (Gr. un-, non-, -less.

One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.

g. 7, 1912, when the candidates were nominated and the platform adopted. Among the chief articles in the platform are those demanding direct primaries, preferential primaries for presidential nominations, direct election of United States senators, women's suffrage, and recall of judicial decisions in certain cases.…

difference of price which might arise before the expiration of the prompt, which for this article [tea] is three months. J. S. Mill.