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Of or pertaining to an egg.

Relating or belonging to an ovule; as, an ovular growth.

Pertaining to ovules.

Of, pertaining to, or fit for, pabulum or food; affording food.

Same as Papillose.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a papilla or papillæ; bearing, or covered with, papillæ; papillose.

Consisting of papules; characterized by the presence of papules; as, a papular eruption.

or from others of the class; separate; sole; single; individual; specific; as, the particular stars of a constellation. Shak. [/Make] each particular hair to stand an end, Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. Shak. Seken in every halk and every herne Particular sciences for to lerne. Chaucer.

The doctrine of particular election.

One who holds to particularism. -- Par*tic`u*lar*is"tic, a.

The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail.

The act of particularizing. Coleridge.

To give as a particular, or as the particulars; to mention particularly; to give the particulars of; to enumerate or specify in detail. He not only boasts of his parentage as an Israelite, but particularizes his descent from Benjamin. Atterbury.

In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly.

A particular; a detail. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the patella, or kneepan.

Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution. [R.] Carlyle.

A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.

Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper (phthiriasis); lousy. Southey.

See Peddler.