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The system, style, spirit, or character, of a priesthood, or sacerdotal order; devotion to the interests of the sacerdotal order.

In a sacerdotal manner.

The turnstone.

A device for circulating and cooling the air, consisting essentially of a kind of roasting fan fitted in a window and incased in wet tatties. [India]

Same as Hurons. [Written also Wyandottes, and Yendots.]

To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.] It doth abhor me now I speak the word. Shak.

t our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity. Jer. Taylor. Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do. Barrow. Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes. Cowper.

A dot at the right side of a note as an indication that its sound is to be lengthened one half. [R.]

Deliberate consideration; knowledge. [Obs.] How shall I dote on her with more advice, That thus without advice begin to love her Shak.

To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us affray. Shak.

An antidote against poison or infection; a counterpoison.

Expelling or counteracting poison; antidotal.

ning a large amount of cerium. It is usually black in color, opaque, and is related to epidote in form and composition.

To lose. [Obs.] A lodestone fired doth presently amit its proper virtue. Sir T. Browne.

f persons or places, used to denote a collection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus, Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsoniana of Johnson, etc.

Vascular tissue of plants, consisting of spiral vessels, dotted, barred, and pitted ducts, and laticiferous vessels.

The state of being and old woman; old-womanishness; dotage. "Marks of anility." Sterne.

Antidotal; alexipharmic.

ject of observation or comprehension, or as a thing proved; to be obvious or manifest. It doth not yet appear what we shall be. 1 John iii. 2. Of their vain contest appeared no end. Milton.

y to South America and Australia. The wood cells differ from those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces in two or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. The seeds are edible.