Search the Dictionary

g ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascenden…

Any disease of the joints.

A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.

Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.

The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.

Hydrous carbonate of bismuth, an earthy mineral of a dull white or yellowish color. [Written also bismuthite.]

Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.

See Bothy.

A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

The absence or suppression of the essential organs (stamens and pistil) in a flower.

A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.

of passages, with notes, etc., to be used in acquiring a language; as, a Hebrew chrestomathy.

Of or pertaining both to the cricoid and the thyroid cartilages.

A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice.

A name formerly given to certain Silurian brachiopod shells of the genus Spirifer. Delthyris limestone (Geol.), one of the divisions of the Upper Silurian rocks in New York.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Same as Deutohydroguret.

quid, NH(C2H5)2, having a strong fishy odor resembling that of herring or sardines. Cf. Methylamine.

Ethane; -- sometimes so called because regarded as consisting of two methyl radicals. See Ethane.