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est Indies. It is stimulant and diuretic, and is much used in affections of the mucous membranes; -- called also balsam of copaiba. [Written also capivi.]

it will), I'd have it copied. Shak. Let this be copied out, And keep it safe for our remembrance. Shak.

A submarine, semicalcareous or calcareous plant, consisting of many jointed branches.

Having the form of coral; branching like coral.

Small gabions. Brande & C.

The deep layer of mucous membranes beneath the epithelium.

ee under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted. -- Common council. See under Common. -- Council board, Council table, the table round which a counci…

To remove from remembrance; to put away; to remit."Blessed is he whose is covered." Ps. xxxii. 1.

, to be conferred upon foreigners to whom Turkey might be indebted for valuable services. Brande & C.

rrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay.

To curl; to form into ringlets, as hair, or the nap of cloth; to interweave, as the branches of trees.

ery one of its pursuits: Beauty, in letters and the arts; Truth, in history and sciences. Brande & C. By criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant a standard of judging well. Dryden.

A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle. Cross and pile, a game with money, at which it is put to chance whether a coin shall fall with that side up which bears the cross, or the other, which is called pile, or reverse; the game called heads or tails. -- Cross bottony or bottoné.…

The angle formed by the parting of two legs or branches; a fork; the point where a trunk divides; as, the crotch of a tree.

ult breathing; esp., such an affection when associated with the development of a false membrane in the air passages (also called membranous croup). See False croup, under False, and Diphtheria.

lating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles of the lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.

g given on account of, or obtained by, faithful or successful effort; a reward. "An olive branch and laurel crown." Shak. They do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptiblle. 1 Cor. ix. 25. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life. Rev. ii. 10.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

A point where one branch of a curve crosses another branch. See Double point, under Double, a.

That branch of Zoölogy which treats of the Crustacea; malacostracology; carcinology.