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A sweet viscid fluid, esp. that collected by bees from flowers of plants, and deposited in the cells of the honeycomb.

s. -- Hook and eye, one of the small wire hooks and loops for fastening together the opposite edges of a garment, etc. -- Hook bill (Zoöl.), the strongly curved beak of a bird. -- Hook ladder, a ladder with hooks at the end by which it can be suspended, as from the top of a wall. -- Hook motion (Steam Engin.), a va…

pur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A composite plant (Erigeron Canadensis), which is a common weed.

A genus of shrubby plants bearing opposite leaves and large heads of showy flowers, white, or of various colors. H. hortensis, the common garden species, is a native of China or Japan.

ual to a given distance. See Focus. If the cutting plane be produced so as to cut the opposite cone, another curve will be formed, which is also an hyperbola. Both curves are regarded as branches of the same hyperbola. See Illust. of Conic section, and Focus.

A condition of overgrowth or excessive development of an organ or part; -- the opposite of atrophy.

veral things are mentioned that seem to make against the argument, or in favor of the opposite side, each of them being refuted in order.

That which is deposited at the bottom of a fluid; sediment.

The side of a right-angled triangle that is opposite to the right angle.

as long been merely to obtain further time to plead, answer to the allegations of the opposite party.

An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak.

lls or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, toll, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war. Genius must have talent as its complement and implement. Coleridge.

One who is in office; -- the opposite of Ant: out.

of a rock or fossil, when found in the situation in which it was originally formed or deposited.

Inside the line of a vessel's bulwarks or hull; the opposite of outboard; as, an inboard cargo; haul the boom inboard.

To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify. It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. Milman.

antain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods. Gray. -- Indian poke (Bot.), a plant usually known as the white hellebore (Veratrum viride). -- Indian pudding, a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Ind…

dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.

cular electric or magnetic condition in a body, by the approach of another body in an opposite electric or magnetic state.