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To promise; to vow. Behight by vow unto the chaste Minerve. Surrey.

Paralysis of the facial nerve, producing distortion of one side of the face.

n acute disease occurring in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

le shell lime, by the inhabitants of the East Indies. I is a woody climber with ovate manynerved leaves.

Two-nerved; -- applied to leaves which have two longitudinal ribs or nerves.

imentary eyes. -- Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. -- Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. -- Blind wall, a wall…

ght; to tighten; to put in a state of tension; to strain; to strengthen; as, to brace the nerves. And welcome war to brace her drums. Campbell.

Pertaining or belonging to the arm; as, the brachial artery; the brachial nerve.

Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting. [Colloq.]

Any villous or hairy covering; a fine fiber or filament, as of the nerves.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

-- Centripetal impression (Physiol.), an impression (sensory) transmitted by an afferent nerve from the exterior of the body inwards, to the central organ.

A term applied to the action of nerve force in the spinal center. Marshall Hall.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the brain to the spinal cord, and so transfer cerebral impulses (centrifugal impressions) outwards.

A nonphosphorized, nitrogenous substance, obtained from brain and nerve tissue by extraction with boiling alcohol. It is uncertain whether it exists as such in nerve tissue, or is a product of the decomposition of some more complex substance.

Applied to those nerve fibers which go from the spinal cord to the brain and so transfer sensations (centripetal impressions) from the exterior inwards.

A commissure; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves. -- Chi*as"mal (, a..

tasteless and odorless, found in animal and plant products and tissue, and especially in nerve tissue, in the bile, and in gallstones.

Surrounding the esophagus; -- in Zool. said of the nerve commissures and ganglia of arthropods and mollusks.

ircularly; -- applied to several arteries of the hip and thigh, to arteries, veins, and a nerve of the shoulder, and to other parts.