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Sporadic.

In a sporadic manner.

The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as Trichomanes), which bears the sporangia.

A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

See under Stag.

The operation of uniting a cleft palate, consisting in paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- Staph`y*lo*raph"ic, Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic, a.

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

The doctrine or belief of the Stercoranists.

A nickname formerly given to those who held, or were alleged to hold, that the consecrated elements in the eucharist undergo the process of digestion in the body of the recipient.

A Stercoranist.

A place, properly secured from the weather, for containing dung.

Excrement; dung. [Obs.]

Manuring with dung. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.

The price changed for keeping goods in a store. Storage battery. (Physics) See the Note under Battery.

rk of several trees and shrubs of the Styrax family. The most common of these is liquid storax, a brown or gray semifluid substance of an agreeable aromatic odor and balsamic taste, sometimes used in perfumery, and in medicine as an expectorant.

A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

Situated under the coracoid process of the scapula; as, the subcoracoid dislocation of the humerus.

Under the shore. Smart.

Capable of being succored or assisted; admitting of relief.