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The ear drum, or middle ear. Sometimes applied incorrectly to the tympanic membrane. See Ear.

A flatulent distention of the belly; tympanites. Fuller.

To take the saddle off; to unsaddle. [Obs.] Jervas.

Usurping; encroaching. [Obs.] Gauden.

A curly-haired breed of spaniels, naturally very fond of the water.

See Pane, n., (3) b. [In this sense, written also window pane.]

el style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A tablet, panel, or compartment in ornamented or mosaic work.

rt minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12.

taph.), an idea separated from a complex object, or from other ideas which naturally accompany it; as the solidity of marble when contemplated apart from its color or figure. -- Abstract terms, those which express abstract ideas, as beauty, whiteness, roundness, without regarding any object in which they exist; or abs…

Accompanying, as a subordinate; additional; accessory; esp., uniting in, or contributing to, a crime, but not as chief actor. See Accessory. To both their deaths thou shalt be accessary. Shak. Amongst many secondary and accessary causes that support monarchy, these are not of least reckoning. Milton.…

Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music.

One of the granular masses which constitute a racemose or compound gland, as the pancreas; also, one of the saccular recesses in the lobules of a racemose gland. Quain.

A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.] The Euripus of funds and actions. Burke.

A shareholder in joint-stock company. [Obs.]

The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.

addicted him to the study of antiquity. Fuller. A man gross . . . and addicted to low company. Macaulay.

A Spanish red wine made of the first ripe grapes.

e or curve, a curve exhibiting the variations of pressure and volume of a fluid when it expands without either receiving or giving out heat. Rankine.