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Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.

Having many, or several, centers; as, a multicentral cell. Multicental development (Biol.), growth, or development, from several centers. According as the insubordination to a single center is more or less pronounced, the resultant organism will be more or less irregular in form and may even discontinuous.…

Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.

tion by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts.

Capable of being observed; worthy of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.

In a noticeable manner.

One who notices.

A penthouse. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

us substance, to be applied to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm. "Poultice relaxeth the pores." Bacon.

al performance; a succession of acts of a similar kind; usage; habit; custom; as, the practice of rising early; the practice of making regular entries of accounts; the practice of daily exercise. A heart . . . exercised with covetous practices. 2 Pet. ii. 14.

Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton.

One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South.

An apprentice. [Obs. or Colloq.] Piers Plowman. "My accuser is my prentice." Shak.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

Apprenticeship. [Obs. or Colloq.] He served a prenticeship who sets up shop. Pope.

The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness. Such fine reserve and noble reticence. Tennyson.

Reticence.

Inclined to keep silent; reserved; uncommunicative.

he sign Cancer and the first point of the sign Capricorn, the former being the summer solstice, latter the winter solstice, in northern latitudes; - - so called because the sun then apparently stands still in its northward or southward motion.

Want of justice; injustice. [Obs.] Hales.