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is. Paralytic secretion (Physiol.), the fluid, generally thin and watery, secreted from a gland after section or paralysis of its nerves, as the pralytic saliva.

ubstance of the tissues of plants and animals, like the pulp of leaves, to soft tissue of glands, and the like.

layman who leads in the responses and otherwise assists in the service of the Church of England. -- Parish court, in Louisiana, a court in each parish.

Situated near the ear; -- applied especially to the salivary gland near the ear.

Inflammation of the parotid glands. Epidemic, or Infectious, parotitis, mumps.

Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially to cutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs. -- n.

rent parts of the brain; as, the peduncles of the cerebellum; the peduncles of the pineal gland.

A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.

One of an honorable band of gentlemen who attend the sovereign of England on state occasions, and receive an annual pension, or allowance, of £150 and two horses.

buttress on the left-hand wall of a fives court as the game is played at Eton College, England.

An unorganized proteolytic ferment or enzyme contained in the secretory glands of the stomach. In the gastric juice it is united with dilute hydrochloric acid (0.2 per cent, approximately) and the two together constitute the active portion of the digestive fluid. It is the active agent in the gastric juice of all anima…

pepsin. A substance contained in the form of granules in the peptic cells of the gastric glands. It is readily convertible into pepsin. Also called propepsin.

inous matter; containing or yielding pepsin, or a body of like properties; as, the peptic glands.

A Paris candle anciently used in England; also, a large wax candle formerly set upon the altar. [Obs.] Bailey.

Surrounding a ganglion; as, the periganglionic glands of the frog.

A fatal epidemic disease; a pestilence; specif., the plague. England's sufferings by that scourge, the pest. Cowper.

ding from it; as, a petiolar tendril; growing or supported upon a petiole; as, a petiolar gland; a petiolar bud.

ain specified small value; -- opposed to grand larceny. The distinction is abolished in England. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war,…

A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.

An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.