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A carbuncle.

A fluid vaccine obtained by growing a bacterium (Bacterium anthracis) in beef broth. It is used to immunize animals, esp. cattle.

e ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect. Example: Next comes Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-colonel to the Earl ANTICLINAL An`ti*cli"nal, a. Etym: [Pref. anti- + Gr.

Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.

tate of disorder that characterizes nervous fevers and the nervous condition. Locomotor ataxia. See Locomotor.

Characterized by ataxy, that is, (a) by great irregularity of functions or symptoms, or (b) by a want of coordinating power in movements. Ataxic fever, malignant typhus fever. Pinel.

A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon.

A baker; originally, a female baker. [Old Eng. & Scotch]

The wax secreted by bees, and of which their cells are constructed.

Having two axes; as, biaxial polarization. Brewster. -- Bi*ax"i*al*ly, adv.

The classification of living organisms according to their structural character; taxonomy.

A genus of trees, called also the silkcotton tree; also, a tree of the genus Bombax.

nally obtained from a lake in Thibet, and was sent to Europe under the name of tincal. Borax is a pyroborate or tetraborate of sodium, Na2B4O7.10H2O. Borax bead. (Chem.) See Bead, n., 3.

A disease of sheep. The term is variously applied in different localities. [Scot.]

An ancient military weapon; a battle-ax.

See Carapace.

A kind of wig. [Obs.] Lamb.

Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer. Hansard.

n of any one of the Arachnida and higher Crustacea, consisting of the united head and thorax.

The arrangement of bristles on an insect.