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Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.

ber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

A colorless, crystalline, nitrogenous base, obtained by the decomposition of cocaine.

The clear, viscid fluid secreted by the poison glands of certain serpents; also, a nitrogenous base contained in this, and supposed to be the active poisonous principle of the virus. Brande & C.

An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon com…

Greediness; voracity; ravenousness; rapacity. Bacon.

Diffusing a flood of light; shining; luminous; beaming; bright; splendid. "Effulgent rays of light." Cowper.

Like or pertaining to the Elapidæ, a family of poisonous serpents, including the cobras. See Ophidia.

fishes, comprising the sharks, the rays, and the Chimæra. The skeleton is mainly cartilaginous.

ing the phenomena of double refraction and their relation to the elastic force of the luminous ether in crystalline media.

A nitrogenous substance, somewhat resembling albumin, which forms the chemical basis of elastic tissue. It is very insoluble in most fluids, but is gradually dissolved when digested with either pepsin or trypsin.

icity that appears at the negative pole or cathode, or is produced by the friction of resinous substance; -- called also resinous electricity. (h) Organic electricity, that which is developed in organic structures, either animal or vegetable, the phrase animal electricity being much more common.

Pertaining to one of the four elements, air, water, earth, fire. "Some luminous and fiery impressions in the elementary region." J. Spencer.

Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as, emplastic applications.

: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photography, a liquid preparation of collodion holding salt of silver, used in the photographic process.

A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone. Quain.

Endogenous.

Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.

The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.

A chitinous structure above the nervous cord in the thorax of certain Crustacea.