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Any substance or means which, applied to animal or other organic tissue, burns, corrodes, or destroys it by chemical action; an escharotic.

ntion, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

One who performs a public religious rite; -- applied particularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church, as distinguished from his assistants.

Allied to, or resembling, the genus Centriscus, of which the bellows fish is an example.

Converging to a center; -- applied to lines drawn so as to meet in a point or center.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

Craniotomy; -- usually applied to bisection of the fetal head with a saw.

Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a division of mollusks.

r, so that it can be spread upon cloth without the use of heat, but does not melt when applied to the skin.

A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.

A waxy substance extracted by alcohol or ether from cork; sometimes applied also to the portion of beeswax which is soluble in alcohol. Watts.

Cherry-colored; a light bright red; --- applied to textile fabrics, especially silk.

brownish of cherry-red color, commonly massive. It is a hydrous silicate of cerium and allied metals.

A hydrous silicate of magnesium, allied to serpentine, occurring in waxlike masses of a yellow or greenish color.

A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other allied species.

An abbreviation for Centimeter, Gram, Second. -- applied to a system of units much empoyed in physical science, based upon the centimeter as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of weight or mass, and the second as the unit of time.

The red-bellied wood pecker (Melanerpes Carolinus).