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sion of spirits; an oppression of the lungs. There gentlee Sleep First found me, and with soft oppression seized My drowsed sense. Milton.

To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.

The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone, ultimately undergoes ossification.

Softening and absorption of bone. -- Os`te*o*lyt"ic (#), a.

A disease of the bones, in which they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

tish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common otter of Europe is Lutra vulgaris; the American otter is L. Canadensis; other species inhabit South America and Asia.

The rudiment of a seed. It grows from a placenta, and consists of a soft nucleus within two delicate coatings. The attached base of the ovule is the hilum, the coatings are united with the nucleus at the chalaza, and their minute orifice is the foramen.

harge of fetid matter from the nostril, particularly if associated with ulceration of the soft parts and disease of the bones of the nose.

A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

A small Asiatic mammal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

Formerly, a piece of cloth serving as a saddle; hence, a soft pad beneath a saddletree to prevent chafing.

A soft food for infants, made of bread boiled or softtened in milk or water.

A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreæ. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, me…

Like pap; soft; succulent; tender. Ray.

The soft celluar substance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

A soft composition, as of flour moistened with water or milk, or of earth moistened to the consistence of dough, as in making potter's ware.

A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.

Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. "A pasty complexion." G. Eliot.

Colloq.] "Thou scurvy patch." Shak. Patch ice, ice in overlapping pieces in the sea. -- Soft patch, a patch for covering a crack in a metallic vessel, as a steam boiler, consisting of soft material, as putty, covered and held in place by a plate bolted or riveted fast.