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The science of extinct animals, a branch of paleontology.

sed Vulcan to make out of clay in order to punish the human race, because Prometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora a box containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened, escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box. Another version makes the box contain all the ble…

One who delivers a panegyric; a eulogist; one who extols or praises, either by writing or speaking. If these panegyrists are in earnest. Burke.

To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.

To be suffered to go on; to be tolerated; hence, to continue; to live alogn. "The play may pass." Shak.

Such as may be allowed to pass without serious objection; tolerable; admissable; moderate; mediocre. My version will appear a passable beauty when the original muse is absent. Dryden.

Tolerably; moderately.

The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonie…

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.

A toll or tax paid by passengers, entitling them to safe- conduct and protection. [Obs.] Spelman.

A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs. My father stole two geese out of a pen. Shak.

Able to digest. [R.] Tolerably nutritive for a mind as yet so peptic. Carlyle.

Permitted; tolerated; suffered. Milton.

To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker.

To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. [Obs.] In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.

A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.

Of or pertaining to Ptolemy Philadelphus, or to one of the cities named Philadelphia, esp. the modern city in Pennsylvania.

A dread or intolerance of light. Sir T. Watson.

A process, analogous to photolithography, for reproducing photographed impressions transferred to zinc plate.

The tribal history of the functions, or the history of the paleontological development of vital activities, -- being a branch of phylogeny. See Morphophyly. Haeckel.