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lp of a tooth; an odontoplast. They are supposed to be connected with the formation of dentine.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon, having a garlic odor; heptine.

used with a name or appellation, and equivalent to the relation of apposition; as, the continent of America; the city of Rome; the Island of Cuba.

Of or pertaining to an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine. That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate. Shak.

he state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism. Officialism may often drift into blunders. Smiles.

One of the special zooids, or cells, of Bryozoa, destined to receive and develop ova; an ovicell. See Bryozoa.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid obtained by the oxidation of narcotine.

An alkaloid found in small quantity in opium. It is identical with narcotine.

ing together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines. Jer. Taylor.

Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end. [R.] Those organic arts which enable men to discourse and write perspicuously. Milton.

to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness. Milton.

so called vi-apple. It is rather larger than an apple, and the rind has a flavor of turpentine, but the flesh is said to taste like pineapples.

Foreign; not civil or intestine; as, an outward war. [Obs.] Hayward.

Of or pertaining to the palate; palatine; as, the palatal bones.

Palatal; palatine. [Obs.] Barrow.

Palatal; palatine.

The province or seigniory of a palatine; the dignity of a palatine. Howell.

Pertaining to the palatine and pterygoid region of the skull; as, the palatopterygoid cartilage, or rod, from which the palatine and pterygoid bones are developed.

Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagonia. Pampas cat (Zoöl.), a South American wild cat (Felis pajeros). It has oblique transverse bands of yellow or brown. It is about…

The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive appa…