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The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

In many different ways; variously.

ley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

See Raskolnik.

Momentary. [Obs.] Hooker. "Momentany as a sound." Shak.

Same as Nymphomania.

Same as Meconin.

See Origan.

in beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age. Oriskany period, a subdivision of the American Paleozoic system intermediate or translational in character between the Silurian and Devonian ages. See Chart of Geology.

To exceed in buffoonery. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.

See Pannier. [Obs.] Pepys.

See Panim. [Obs.]

A friend of the bridegroom who went with him in his chariot to fetch home the bride. Milton.

Bridal; nuptial. [R.] At some paranymphal feast. Ford.

A government by many chiefs, princes, or rules. [Obs.] Cudworth.

The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

A confection of quinces, in consistency between a sirup and marmalade.

A convulsive disease, attended with ravenous hunger, not uncommon in Sweden and Germany. It was so called because supposed to be caused by eating corn with which seeds of jointed charlock (Raphanus raphanistrum) had been mixed, but the condition is now known to be a form of ergotism.

Same as Rhatany.