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Wide; extensive. Sandys.

Without space. Coleridge.

Having a spathe; resembling a spathe; spathal.

real salts of palmitic acid with ethal and other hydrocarbon bases. The substance of spermaceti after the removal of certain impurities is sometimes called cetin. Spermaceti whale (Zoöl.), the sperm whale.

Gangrene.

To die, decay, or become gangrenous, as flesh or bone; to mortify.

Affected with gangrene; mortified.

The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.

Gangrenous part; gangrene; slough.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the plant spinach, or the family of plants to which it belongs.

See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).

Squamose.

A lace for fastening stays.

Of or pertaining to dung; partaking of the nature of, or containing, dung.

Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sterculiaceæ) of polypetalous exogenous plants, mostly tropical. The cacao (Theobroma Cacao) is the most useful plant of the order.

Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils.

ve scope to fashion the body as she thinks best; we have few well-shaped that are strait-laced. Locke.

Of or pertaining to a strobile or cone.

An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent.

Occurring beneath a crust or scab; as, a subcrustaceous cicatrization.