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Of or pertaining to aldehyde; as, aldehydic acid. Miller.

Cockfighting.

Cockfighting.

-- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. J. Prichard.

of producing, and printing from, aluminium plates, after the manner of ordinary lithography. -- A*lu`mi*no*graph"ic (#), a.

ish violet color, of different shades. It is much used as a jeweler's stone. Oriental amethyst, the violet-blue variety of transparent crystallized corundum or sapphire.

Resembling amethyst, especially in color; bluish violet.

Shapelessness. [Obs.] Swift.

The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc.

An accessory process in many lumbar vertebræ.

here is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite or consolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one. [Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.

Stiffness or fixation of a joint; formation of a stiff joint. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to anchylosis.

A description of the winds.

Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

A description of blood vessels and lymphatics.

Disease of the vessels, esp. the blood vessels.

An oxide of a nonmetallic body or an organic radical, capable of forming an acid by uniting with the elements of water; -- so called because it may be formed from an acid by the abstraction of water.