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At the bottom; lowest. Cowell.

In front; publicly. [Obs.] Spenser.

Peradventure; perchance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present in small quantity in urine.

On either side of the axis of the skeleton.

A hydrocarbon of the aromatic series obtained as a colorless liquid by the distillation of camphor with zinc chloride. It is one of the three metamers of xylene. Cf. Metamer, and Xylene.

rots having a graduated tail, which is frequently very long; -- called also paroquet and paraquet.

See Faro. Pharaoh's chicken (Zoöl.), the gier-eagle, or Egyptian vulture; -- so called because often sculpured on Egyptian monuments. It is nearly white in color. -- Pharaoh's rat (Zoöl.), the common ichneumon.

See Pharaoh, 2.

Of or pertaining to the Pharaohs, or kings of ancient Egypt.

A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

Having opposite surfaces exactly plane and parallel, as a piece of glass.

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

e, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready; as, the preparation of land for a crop of wheat; the preparation of troops for a campaign.

ding to prepare or make ready; having the power of preparing, qualifying, or fitting; preparatory. Laborious quest of knowledge preparative to this work. South.

By way of preparation.

One who prepares beforehand, as subjects for dissection, specimens for preservation in collections, etc. Agassiz.

revious measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.

A woman who bears a child for the first time.

ung are born in a stage like the pupa. It includes the sheep tick, horse tick, and other parasites. Called also Homaloptera.