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ailing; predominant; successful; victorious. Brennus told the Roman embassadors, that prevalent arms were as good as any title. Sir W. Raleigh.

In a prevalent manner. Prior.

The bone of either the upper arm or the thing, the propodialia being the humerus and femur.

False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).

The quality or state of being quadrivalent; tetravalence.

Having a valence of four; capable of combining with, being replaced by, or compared with, four monad atoms; tetravalent; -- said of certain atoms and radicals; thus, carbon and silicon are quadrivalent elements.

Valence. [Archaic]

Of or pertaining to quantivalence. [Archaic]

Same as Pentavalent.

The bone or cartilage of the carpus which articulates with the radius and corresponds to the scaphoid bone in man.

The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.

An adventitious sound, usually of morbid origin, accompanying the normal respiratory sounds. See Rhonchus.

A female rascal. [Humorous]

An explanation or exposition of the principles of some opinion, action, hypothesis, phenomenon, or like; also, the principles themselves.

To enertaas, to regale the taste, the eye, or the ear.

The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.

One who regales.

One who repeals; one who seeks a repeal; specifically, an advocate for the repeal of the Articles of Union between Great Britain and Ireland.

A sale at second hand, or at retail; also, a second sale. Bacon.

The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent. Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.