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A service book containing a selection of pieces for the festival services.

A buffoon or merry-andrew; one that practices odd gesticulations; the Fool of the old play.

A device, one form of which consists of a scratched deposit of silver on glass, used in connection with the receiving apparatus for reading wireless signals. The electric waves falling on this contrivance increase its resistance several times. The anticoherer can be used in conjunction with a telephone.…

Good against jaundice. -- n.

Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [Obs.] South.

The tenets or practice of Antinomians. South.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

iffering from hemipeptone in not being decomposed by the continued action of pancreatic juice.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Old age. [Obs.] It not your voice broken . . . and every part about you blasted with antiquity Shak.

endency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

The use of some epithet or the name of some office, dignity, or the like, instead of the proper name of the person; as when his majesty is used for a king, or when, instead of Aristotle, we say, the philosopher; or, conversely, the use of a proper name instead of an appellative, as when a wise man is called a Solomon,…

A kind of pack saddle used in the American military service and among the Spanish Americans. It is made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or the like.

parate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house.

The practice of aping; an apish action. Coleridge.

Feeding upon aphides, or plant lice, as do beetles of the family Coccinellidæ.

ging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidæ, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.

Loss of voice or vocal utterance.

Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.