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Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

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

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency 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.

A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

Believed to cause a revulsion of fluids or of humors from one part to another. [Obs.]

A disbeliever in the existence of God.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Preventing fermentation.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

One indifferently, out of an indefinite number; one indefinitely, whosoever or whatsoever it may be.

In any way or manner whatever; at any rate; in any event. Anyhow, it must be acknowledged to be not a simple selforiginated error. J. H. Newman. Anyhow, the languages of the two nations were closely allied. E. A. Freeman.

Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G. Sumner.

A group of nomadic North American Indians including several tribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.

r." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming.

ow he apes his sire." Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. Burke.

rtaining to, or caused by, aphthæ; characterized by aphtæ; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.

Belonging to Apicius, a notorious Roman epicure; hence applied to whatever is peculiarly refined or dainty and expensive in cookery. H. Rogers.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.