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A small mass of adenoid tissue; as, a lymphatic follicle.

the anniversary of the day (December 21) on which the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, Massachusetts (1620). On account of a mistake in reckoning the change from Old Style to New Style, it has generally been celebrated on the 22d.

Mineral deposits and rock masses designated with reference to their origin; as, the siliceous formation about geysers; alluvial formations; marine formations.

y most curious and costly ingredients frayed, I shall acknowledge myself amply satisfied. Massinger.

monly reported. [Obs.] 'T is frequent in the city he hath subdued The Catti and the Daci. Massinger.

Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction or reservation. Massinger.

The obtaining or amassing of profit or valuable possessions; acquisition; accumulation. "The lust of gain." Tennyson.

Prepossessing; well-favored. [Obs.] Massinger.

esin, produced by several species of trees in Siam, Ceylon, and Malabar. It is brought in masses, or cylindrical rolls, from Cambodia, or Cambogia, -- whence its name. The best kind is of a dense, compact texture, and of a beatiful reddish yellow. Taking internally, it is a strong and harsh cathartic ad emetic. [Writte…

A mass or knot of nervous matter, including nerve cells, usually forming an enlargement in the course of a nerve.

To make an opening in; to breach. Their masses are gapp'd with our grape. Tennyson.

To accumulate by collecting and saving little by little; to amass; to gain; to heap up. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. Prov. xxviii. 8. To pay the creditor . . . he must gather up money by degrees. Locke.

: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age. This…

it finally becomes detached,and by a process of multiplication and growth gives rise to a mass of cells, which ultimately form a new individual like the parent. See Ovum. -- Germ gland. (Anat.) See Gonad. -- Germ stock (Zoöl.), a special process on which buds are developed in certain animals. See Doliolum. -- Germ t…

A polynuclear mass of protoplasm, not divided into separate cells, from which certain ova are developed. Balfour.

se hydrated form of silica, a variety of opal, deposited in concretionary cauliflowerlike masses, around some hot springs and geysers.

mployed by early writers on art, though commonly designating the yellow oxide of lead, or massicot. Fairholt.

To be glad; to rejoice. [Obs.] Massinger.

The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.

Gathered together in a roundish mass or dense cluster; conglomerate.