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A hotchpotch. Sir T. Herbert.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move in so…

use to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.

A dish for keeping muffins hot.

The mouth. [Obs.] One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. Old Rhyme. Halliwell.

The keeper, or box into which the lock is shot. Knight.

, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority. Dryden.

ed, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of a graduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage, etc.; hence, any similar treatment using waters a…

orm of belief in mental healing other than (1) Christian Science and (2) hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances, and his life by the adoption of a favorable mental attitude. AS a therapeu…

A white waxy substance having a hot, bitter taste, extracted from tobacco leaves and called also tobacco camphor.

Scales of hot iron from the forge. Knight.

A salt of nitric acid. Nitrate of silver, a white crystalline salt (AgNO3), used in photography and as a cauterizing agent; -- called also lunar caustic.

to be of animal nature. They are now considered corallines of the genera Melobesia and Lithothamnion.

; as, occasional remarks, or efforts. The... occasional writing of the present times. Bagehot.

Bot.), an East Indian plant (Mantisia saltatoria) of the Ginger family, sometimes seen in hothouses. It has curious flowers which have some resemblance to a ballet dancer, whence the popular name. Called also dancing girls. -- Opera glass, a short telescope with concave eye lenses of low power, usually made double, th…

sually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.

An image of external objects fixed on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple. See Optography.

The production of an optogram on the retina by the photochemical action of light on the visual purple; the fixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual.