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Antistrumous. -- n.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

A cavern or cavity, esp. an anatomical cavity or sinus. Huxley.

n a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example. Our common arums the lords and ladies of village children. Lubbock.

Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate. -- Aurum mosaicum (See Mosaic.

The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads, and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.

A fragrant liquid, used for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.

The second month of the calendar adopted by the first French republic. It began thirty days after the autumnal equinox. See Vendemiaire.

Of or pertaining to winter. "The brumal solstice." Sir T. Browne.

Mist; fog; vapors. "The drifting brume." Longfellow.

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

Foggy; misty.

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

A comblike structure on the metatarsus of the hind legs of certain spiders (Ciniflonidæ), used to curl certain fibers in the construction of their webs.

A lamp stand of any sort.

The body, or axis, of a vertebra. See Vertebra.

The anterior, and in man the larger, division of the brain; the seat of the reasoning faculties and the will. See Brain.

The yellow, waxlike secretion from the glands of the external ear; the earwax.

Pertaining to, or secreting, cerumen; as, the ceruminous glands.

A thin lamina of gray matter in each cerebral hemiphere of the brain of man. -- Claus"tral, a.