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The dignity, office, or jurisdiction of a viceroy.

Viceroyalty.

Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles. Mivart.

The rhinoceros. [Obs.] Purchas.

Acerose; needle-shaped.

A small ulcerous swelling, coming suddenly; also, a whitlow. [Obs.] Boucher.

aracterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

Ancient times; former ages; times long since past; as, Cicero was an eloquent orator of antiquity.

stead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon, or an eminent orator a Cicero.

or pronouns, put in the same case, without a connecting word between them; as, I admire Cicero, the orator. Here, the second noun explains or characterizes the first. Growth by apposition (Physiol.), a mode of growth characteristic of non vascular tissues, in which nutritive matter from the blood is transformed on the…

An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.

e. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).

A swelling on the skin; a large ulcerous affection; a boil; an eruptive disease. [Obs. or Dial.] Botches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

engravers, mathematical instrument makers, etc. Box elder, the ash-leaved maple (Negundo aceroides), of North America. -- Box holly, the butcher's broom (Russus aculeatus). -- Box thorn, a shrub (Lycium barbarum). -- Box tree, the tree variety of the common box.

ct mammals from the miocene strata of western North America. They were allied to the rhinoceros, but the skull bears a pair of powerful horn cores in front of the orbits, and the fore feet were four-toed. See Illustration in Appendix.

ine family of quadrupeds. Also, the young of some other mammals, as of the elephant, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, and whale.

To grow into a canser; to become cancerous. Boyle.

The act or state of becoming cancerous or growing into a cancer.