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Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. "This is the forest primeval." Longfellow. From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.

s Primula. Evening primrose, an erect biennial herb (Enothera biennis), with yellow vespertine flowers, common in the United States. The name is sometimes extended to other species of the same genus. -- Primrose peerless, the two-flowered Narcissus (N. biflorus). [Obs.]

ally be separated by analysis; -- applied especially to drugs, plant extracts, etc. Cathartine is the bitter, purgative principle of senna. Gregory. Bitter principle, Principle of contradiction, etc. See under Bitter, Contradiction, etc.

Pristine; primitive. [Obs.] "Pristinate idolatry." Holinshed.

Secret; clandestine. " A privee thief." Chaucer.

A division of Turbellaria including those that have an intestine terminating posteriorly.

The tine of a fork, or of a similar instrument; as, a fork of two or three prongs.

Having prongs or projections like the tines of a fork; as, a three-pronged fork.

Curious inspection; impertinent peeping.

Inspecting closely or impertinently.

s below mammals, is not connected with the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine bones with the point of suspension of the lower jaw. -- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward from either side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, an inner and an outer. The posterior nar…

An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage. Shak.

The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

s that they seem like the punctual stops counting off our very souls into the past. J. Martineau.

The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

A name of contemptuous reproach for a conceited and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.

To have or produce frequent evacuations from the intestines, as by means of a cathartic.

The opening from the stomach into the intestine.

ombohedral crystals or massive, and is of a dark red or black color with a metallic adamantine luster.

of a large number of organic substances, among which several vegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptomaïnes, may be mentioned. See Lutidine.