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A plant (Aristolochia anguicida) of Carthagena, used as an antidote to serpent bites. Lindley.

A plate of metal, beneath the stock, or the lock frame, of a gun or pistol, having a loop, called a bow, to protect the trigger.

concentrated sulphuric acid. Two like bodies, called respectively hæmatoporphyrin and hæmatolin, are formed in a similar manner.

blood corpuscles, as by pressure, in distinction from solution of the corpuscles, or hæmcytolysis.

Same as Hæmatolysis, Hæmatolytic.

A fee or toll paid for goods sold in a hall.

An Havana cigar. Young Frank Clavering stole his father's Havannahs, and . . . smoked them in the stable. Thackeray.

To be informed by oral communication; to be told; to receive information by report or by letter. I have heard, sir, of such a man. Shak. I must hear from thee every day in the hour. Shak. To hear ill, to be blamed. [Obs.] Not only within his own camp, but also now at Rome, he heard ill for his temporizing and slow proc…

(Law), that species of testimony which consists in a a narration by one person of matters told him by another. It is, with a few exceptions, inadmissible as testimony. Abbott.

ants, esp. in the line of Jacob; an Israelite; a Jew. There came one that had escaped and told Abram the Hebrew. Gen. xiv. 13.

nd the Protestant Episcopal Church. The high- churchmen emphasize the doctrine of the apostolic succession, and hold, in general, to a sacramental presence in the Eucharist, to baptismal regeneration, and to the sole validity of Episcopal ordination. They attach much importance to ceremonies and symbols in worship. Low…

r Bryozoa, in which the tentacles are on a lophophore, shaped like a horseshoe. See Phylactolæma.

Same as Histology.

The formation and development of organic tissues; histogeny; -- the opposite of histolysis.

One who describes organic tissues; an histologist.

A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bow of his saddle.

A borosilicate of iron and lime, near datolite in form and composition.

To praise in song; to worship or extol by singing hymns; to sing. To hymn the bright of the Lord. Keble. Their praise is hymned by loftier harps than mine. Byron.

ruth; expressing in the predicate what is given, or obviously implied, in the subject; tautological. When you say body is solid, I say that you make an identical proposition, because it is impossible to have the idea of body without that of solidity. Fleming. Identical equation (Alg.), an equation which is true for all…

to prove to be the same with something described, claimed, or asserted; as, to identify stolen property.