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Any plant, usually procumbent and mosslike, of the cryptogamous class Hepaticæ; -- called also scale moss and liverwort. See Hepaticæ, in the Supplement.

Hepatic. [R.]

A variety of barite emitting a fetid odor when rubbed or heated.

Inflammation of the liver.

Conversion into a substance resembling the liver; a state of the lungs when gorged with effused matter, so that they are no longer pervious to the air.

To impregnate with sulphureted hydrogen gas, formerly called hepatic gas. On the right . . . were two wells of hepatized water. Barrow.

A digestive gland in Crustacea, Mollusca, etc., usually called the liver, but different from the liver of vertebrates.

Hernia of the liver.

Of or pertaining to the liver and gall bladder; as, the hepatocystic ducts.

See Gastrohepatic.

Arising from the liver; due to a condition of the liver; as, hepatogenic jaundice.

The science which treats of the liver; a treatise on the liver.

Of or pertaining to the liver and kidneys; as, the hepatorenal ligament.

Divination by inspecting the liver of animals.

ng a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.

Neat; fit; comfortable. [Obs.]

A young salmon; a parr.

A combining form from Gr. "epta`, seven.

A composition sung to the sound of seven chords or tones. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also used as an adjective.