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Loss of the sense of smell.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.

A fossil plant, like a petrified flower.

f human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

An indirect argument which proves a thing by showing the impossibility or absurdity of the contrary.

Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary. Bp. Berkeley.

ilitary service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often c…

Loss of the power of speech, or of the appropriate use of words, the vocal organs remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

Loss of the power of speaking, while retaining the power of writing; -- a disorder of cerebral origin.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.

An enlargement at the top of a pedicel or stem, as seen in certain mosses. Gray.

Sudden diminution or loss of consciousness, sensation, and voluntary motion, usually caused by pressure on the brain.

A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.

that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e.

cient Christians, who, in supposed imitation of the first believers, renounced all their possessions.