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Obtaining approbation; specifically pleasing; apparently right; specious; as, a plausible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion. "Plausible and popular arguments." Clarendon.

pragmatic; in literature, the pragmatic, or philosophical, method. The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to the pragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.

ophic; as, pseudo-hypertrophic paralysis, a variety of paralysis in which the muscles are apparently enlarged, but are really degenerated and replaced by fat.

r causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.

on; a quasi argument, that which resembles, or is used as, an argument; quasi historical, apparently historical, seeming to be historical.

A radioactive substance apparently formed as a product from thorium.

A blossoming anew of a plant after it has apparently ceased blossoming for the season.

Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet. Hutton. And if he be in the west side in that condition, then is he retrograde. Chaucer.

Producing flowers from a rootstock, or apparently from a root.

The very thin transparent and apparently homogenous sheath which incloses a striated muscular fiber; the myolemma.

In appearance; in show; in semblance; apparently; ostensibly. This the father seemingly complied with. Addison.

on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Le…

The state of being siderated, or planet-struck; esp., blast in plants; also, a sudden and apparently causeless stroke of disease, as in apoplexy or paralysis. [Obs.] Ray.

ristband. -- To laugh in the sleeve, to laugh privately or unperceived, especially while apparently preserving a grave or serious demeanor toward the person or persons laughed at; that is, perhaps, originally, by hiding the face in the wide sleeves of former times. -- To pin, or hang, on the sleeve of, to be, or make…

ce, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; - - so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.

Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument. Misled for a moment by the specious names of religion, liberty, and property. Macaulay. In consequence of their greater command of specious expression. J.…

One who, or that which, is stationary, as a planet when apparently it has neither progressive nor retrograde motion. Holland.

Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain. A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear. Campbell. School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch.

A genus of bacilli occurring of the form of long, smooth and apparently branched threads, either straight or twisted.

ed, about 1860, in the village of Osnova, near Odessa, by a peasant, Onishchenko, who had apparently been influenced by a German sect settled near there. They zealously practice Bible reading and reject priestly dominion and all external rites of worship. -- Stun"dism (#), n.