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Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid which is obtained by the oxidation of uric acid, as a white crystalline substance (C3N2H2O3); -- also called oxalyl urea.

A portion of the mesoblast (of peripheral origin) of the developing embryo, the cells of which are especially concerned in forming the first blood and blood vessels. C. S. Minot.

Of or pertaining to the parablast; as, the parablastic cells.

which might really occur in life or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.

ation y = axn where n is a positive whole number or a positive fraction. For the cubical parabola n = 3; for the semicubical parabola n = Cubical, and Semicubical. The parabolas have infinite branches, but no rectilineal asymptotes.

Similitude; comparison.

Of the nature of a parable; expressed by a parable or figure; allegorical; as, parabolical instruction.

By way of parable; in a parabolic manner.

Resembling a parabola in form.

The division of the terms of an equation by a known quantity that is involved in the first term. [Obs.]

A narrator of parables.

The solid generated by the rotation of a parabola about its axis; any surface of the second order whose sections by planes parallel to a given line are parabolas.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a paraboloid.

One of the branches of an ectobronchium or entobronchium.

Capable of being prepared. "Medicine preparable by art." Boyle.

The quality or state of being reparable.

of being repaired, restored to a sound or good state, or made good; restorable; as, a reparable injury.

In a reparable manner.

One of certain vagrant or heretical Oriental monks in the early church.

ic origin, to an air in triple time; also, the air itself. She has brought us the newest saraband from the court of Queen Mab. Sir W. Scott.