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. an aromatic, which tends to expel wind from the alimentary canal, or to relieve colic, griping, or flatulence.

A tablet for ornament, or for receiving an inscription, formed like a sheet of paper with the edges rolled up; hence, any tablet of ornamental form.

To strip the skin from; as, to case a box. [Obs.]

To punish by stripes; to chastise by blows; to chasten; also, to chastise verbally; to reprove; to criticise severely.

lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the application of general moral rules to particular cases. The consideration of these nice and puzzling question in the science of ethics has gi…

A double tripod (for holding a plate, etc.), having six feet, of which three rest on the ground, in whatever position in is placed.

A light transitory air which ruffles the surface of the water during a calm, or the ripples made by such a puff of air.

declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.

A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.

One who cavils. Cavilers at the style of the Scriptures. Boyle.

A description of apparent spots on the disk of the sun, or on planets.

One who is empowered to examine manuscripts before they are committed to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

of being central; tendency towards a center. Meantime there is a great centrality, a centripetence equal to the centrifugence. R. W. Emerson.

A filter, as for sugar, in which a cylinder with a porous or foraminous periphery is rapidly rotated so as to drive off liquid by centrifugal action.

An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.

The description or natural history of cetaceous animals.

ch the standing rigging is fastened. -- Chain pulley, a pulley with depressions in the periphery of its wheel, or projections from it, made to fit the links of a chain. -- Chain pumps. See in the Vocabulary. -- Chain rule (Arith.), a theorem for solving numerical problems by composition of ratios, or compound propor…

ndwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character. You know the character to be your brother's Shak.

lables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.

Jerked beef; beef cut into long strips and dried in the wind and sun. Darwin.