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Something to lessea. Tending to lessen friction.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. -- n.

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

ns, monuments, remains of ancient habitations, statues, coins, manuscripts, etc.; one who searches for and studies the relics of antiquity.

Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen. -- n.

esent in the blood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

ns remaining intact, and the intelligence being preserved. It is dependent on injury or disease of the brain.

A large marine annelid, covered with long, lustrous, golden, hairlike setæ; the sea mouse.

The disease, also called thrush.

A genus of marine mollusks of the order Tectibranchiata; the sea hare. Some of the species when disturbed throw out a deep purple liquor, which colors the water to some distance. See Illust. in Appendix.

vocate before a court, or as a person to be tried. We must all appear before the judgment seat. * Cor. v. 10. One ruffian escaped because no prosecutor dared to appear. Macaulay.

To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

ct of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb.

to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body. He said, and the sword his throat applied. Dryden.

A piece of leather, or other material, to be spread before a person riding on an outside seat of a vehicle, to defend him from the rain, snow, or dust; a boot. "The weather being too hot for the apron." Hughes.

Opportunely or opportune; seasonably or seasonable. A tale extremely apropos. Pope.

t often, projecting from the east end. In early churches the Eastern apse was occupied by seats for the bishop and clergy. Hence:

e sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

Relating to archæology, or antiquities; as, archæological researches. -- Ar`*chæ*o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.