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uickly bleached by light, passing through the colors, red, orange, and yellow, and then disappearing. Also called rhodopsin, and vision purple. See Optography. -- Visual ray, a line from the eye, or point of sight. -- Visual white (Physiol.), the final product in the action of light on visual purple. It is reconverte…

A South American monkey, one of the sapajous.

ing shrub (Tetracera alnifolia, or potatoria) of Western Africa, which pours out a watery sap from the freshly cut stems.

aribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

aribæa) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which is sometimes used for quenching thirst.

A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling. [Local U.S.] Japanese wax, a waxlike substance made in Japan from the berries of certain species of Rhus, esp. R. succedanea. -- Mineral wax. (Min.) See Wax, 2 (f), above. -- Wax cloth. See Waxed cloth, under Waxed. -- Wax end. See Waxed…

ttrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. Spenser. The waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.

ng; a bend; a curve; flexure; meander; as, the windings of a road or stream. To nurse the saplings tall, and curl the grove With ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. Milton.

Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent. Ex. xxviii. 3.

To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek. xvii. 9.

The time when there no sap in the trees; the winter season. [Written also wood-seer.] [Obs.] Tusser.

See Sapodilla.