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Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.

Farthest north.

Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.

Wottest not; knowest not. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

Of or pertaining to nostalgia; affected with nostalgia.

Same as Nostalgia.

A genus of algæ. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance.

Perception; insight; acuteness. [Obs.] Methinks a man Of your sagacity and clear nostril should Have made another choice. B. Jonson.

Any scheme or device proposed by a quack. The incentives of agitators, the arts of impostors and the nostrums of quacks. Brougham.

Having twice as many stamens as petals, those of the outer set being opposite the petals; -- said of flowers. Gray.

The condition of being obdiplostemonous.

In eight vertical ranks, as leaves on a stem.

Having eight columns in the front; -- said of a temple or portico. The Parthenon is octostyle, but most large Greek temples are hexastele. See Hexastyle. -- n.

Having toothlike mandibles; -- applied to certain insects.

The part of the carapace of a crustacean situated behind the cervical groove.

Of or pertaining to the omosternum.

The anterior element of the sternum which projects forward from between the clavicles in many batrachians and is usually tipped with cartilage.

In cost accounting, expenditure which is involved in the process of manufacture or the performance of work and which cannot be charged directly to any particular article manufactured or work done (as where different kinds of goods are produced), but must be allocated so that each kind of goods or work shall bear its pr…

One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.