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Situated above the foot of a mollusk; as, the suprapedal gland.

Containing four distinct petals, or flower leaves; as, a tetrapetalous corolla.

A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.

One of the Therapeutæ.

e healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it. I. Watts.

That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases.

One versed in therapeutics, or the discovery and application of remedies.

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.

A kind of cotton crape.

Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.