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A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.

hich the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poet…

its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.

A term of endearment. [Obs.] See Mouse. B. Jonson.

A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.

is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

mprehensible. God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms. Milton.

The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds.

A term used by modern archæologists instead of cella. See Cella.

Fixed or determined by nature; pertaining to the constitution of a thing; belonging to native character; according to nature; essential; characteristic; not artifical, foreign, assumed, put on, or acquired; as, the natural growth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or dispos…

A native or inhabitant of Nazareth; -- a term of contempt applied to Christ and the early Christians.

A collective term for cravats, collars, etc. [Colloq. or trade name]

Born; -- a term sometimes used in introducing the name of the family to which a married woman belongs by birth; as, Madame de Staël, née Necker.

A proposition by which something is denied or forbidden; a conception or term formed by prefixing the negative particle to one which is positive; an opposite or contradictory term or conception. This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty. South…

A term supposed to mean, perforated wind instruments of music, as pipes or flutes. Ps. v. (heading).

, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves Luke x. 36. The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. South.

A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.

A member of a body of French painters (F. les néo-Grecs) of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.

To introduce or use new words or terms or new uses of old words.

ound in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.