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raining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.] Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.

Styptic; astringent.

The quality or state of being styptic; astringency.

A white crystalline tasteless substance extracted from gum storax, and consisting of a salt of cinnamic acid with cinnamic alcohol.

ubs and trees, mostly American or Asiatic, abounding in resinous and aromatic substances. Styrax officinalis yields storax, and S. Benzoin yields benzoin.

See Styrolene.

e, as a fragrant, aromatic, mobile liquid; -- called also phenyl ethylene, vinyl benzene, styrol, styrene, and cinnamene.

substance having a sweet taste and a hyacinthlike odor, obtained by the decomposition of styracin; -- properly called cinnamic, or styryl, alcohol.

A hypothetical radical found in certain derivatives of styrolene and cinnamic acid; -- called also cinnyl, or cinnamyl.

Choke damp.

See Stithy.

The principal river of the lower world, which had to be crossed in passing to the regions of the dead.

To grant amnesty to.

Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.

Having the mandibular arch articulated with the hyoid arch and the cranium, as in the cestraciont sharks; -- said of a skull.

The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræostyle.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle.