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Characterized by the absence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

A secondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

d. [R.] Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

mes affixed to ideas, or ideas affixed to things; to affix a stigma to a person; to affix ridicule or blame to any one.

In a state of gasping. Coleridge.

eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [Colloq.] A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity; haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. Thackeray.

A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed of the chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as a stimulant. Brande & C.

A term used for the Powder of Algaroth, a white powder which is a compound of trichloride and trioxide of antimony. It was formerly used in medicine as an emetic, purgative, and diaphoretic.

Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100,00…

sterile plain, containing an excess of alkali, at the bottom of an undrained basin in an arid region; a playa.

Any one of various soils found in arid and semiarid regions, containing an unusual amount of soluble mineral salts which effloresce in the form of a powder or crust (usually white) in dry weather following rains or irrigation. The basis of these salts is mainly soda with a smaller amount of potash, and usually a little…

re unit characters commonly existing singly or in pairs in the germ cells of Mendelian hybrids, and exhibited in varying proportion among the organisms themselves. Allelomorphs which under certain circumstances are themselves compound are called hypallelomorphs. See Mendel's law. -- Al*le`lo*mor"phic (#), a.…

exchange for receiving indorsements, when the back of the bill itself is already full; a rider. [A French usage] Abbott.

haic] Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend his pains, condemn his pride, allow his life, approve his learning. Fuller.

he name is also given to other aromatic shrubs; as, the Carolina allspice (Calycanthus floridus); wild allspice (Lindera benzoin), called also spicebush, spicewood, and feverbush.