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A soluble, nitrogenous ferment, capable of converting starch and dextrin into sugar.

Pertaining to, or consisting of, diastase; as, diastasic ferment.

A forcible of bones without fracture.

A hydrous silicate of copper, occurring in emerald-green crystals.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.

Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.

Tending to excite distaste. [Obs.] -- n.

Something which excites distaste or disgust. [Obs.] Speed.

sible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries. Like a mad prophet in an ecstasy. Dryden. This is the very ecstasy of love. Shak.

A dilatation of a hollow organ or of a canal.

The lengthening of a syllable from short to long.

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

Same as Entasia.

A heap; accumulation. [R.]

Relating to any disease characterized by tonic spasms.

part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

See Ecstasy, n. & v. t.

A continuous composition, not divided into what are called movements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, but in which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.

Filled with fancies or imaginations. [Obs.] Shak.

Same as Phantasm.