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into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth. "His skin [was] puckered up in wrinkles." Spectator.

kind of light pastry. (c) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.

ll, pointed instrument, or the like; to prick; to make a puncture in; as, to puncture the skin.

gated spiral shell. Coarctate, or Obtected, pupa, a pupa which is incased in the dried-up skin of the larva, as in many Diptera. -- Masked pupa, a pupa whose limbs are bound down and partly concealed by a chitinous covering, as in Lepidoptera.

Bearing, or containing, a pupa; -- said of the matured larvæ, or larval skins, of certain Diptera.

A disease characterized by livid spots on the skin from extravasated blood, with loss of muscular strength, pain in the limbs, and mental dejection; the purples. Dunglison.

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

Inquiring; asking questions; testing. "Questionary epistles." Pope.

By reason of these rays they ionize gases, affect photographic plates, cause sores on the skin, and produce many other striking effects. Their degree of activity depends on the proportion of radium present, but not on its state of chemical combination or on external conditions.The radioactivity of radium is therefore a…

The refuse stems and skins of grapes or raisins from which the must has been expressed in wine making.

Deprived of skin; galled; as, a raw sore.

aw), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.

A kind of apple having the skin streaked with red and yellow, -- a favorite English cider apple. Mortimer.

A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.

See Reaver. Ruskin.

The act of asking for anything desired; expression of desire or demand; solicitation; prayer; petition; entreaty. I will marry her, sir, at your request. Shak.

aining property until a debt due to the person claiming the right be duly paid; a lien. Erskine. Craig. Retention cyst (Med.), a cyst produced by obstruction of a duct leading from a secreting organ and the consequent retention of the natural secretions.

The class of skin disease developed by the dartrous diathesis. See under Dartrous.

A rare disease of the skin, characterized by the development of very hard, more or less flattened, prominences, appearing first upon the nose and subsequently upon the neighboring parts, esp. the lips, palate, and throat. J. V. Shoemaker.

A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceeding a fever. Rigor caloris ( Etym: [L., rigor of heat] (Physiol.), a form of rigor mortis induced by heat, as when the muscle of a mammal is heated to about 50ºC. -- Rigor mortis ( Etym: [L. , rigor of death]…