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cre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.

To make resemble. [Obs.] If I was a philosopher, says Montaigne, I would naturalize art instead of artilizing nature. Bolingbroke.

plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

coccus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Loss of power to express, or to understand, symbols or signs of thought.

for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison.

Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton.

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use. Assuetude of things hurtful doth make them lose their force to hurt. Bacon.

Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.

To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. Astatic pair (Magnetism), a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

A division of Hydroidea in which the zooids are naked, or not inclosed in a capsule. See Tubularian.

Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.

sed as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

per, n. Atlas powder, a nitroglycerin blasting compound of pasty consistency and great explosive power.