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Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. -- n.

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

Striking; attracting attention; impressive. This most solemn and arresting occurrence. J. H. Newman.

To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.

The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies. Sir I. Newton.

Attracting; drawing; attractive.

Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or produced by, an automaton; of the nature of an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas l…

Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air.

A babyish manner of acting or speaking.

Acting from behind and in concealment; as backdoor intrigues.

or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

A process of extracting gold or silver by treating the ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.

Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus. [Archaic] The full bent and stress of the soul. Norris.

wo wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.