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A short grace note, one semitone below the note to which it is prefixed; -- used especially in organ music. Now used as equivalent to the short appoggiatura.

Increasing by growth from the extremity; as, an acrogenous plant.

A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood. Elmes.

Chronic enlargement of the extremities and face.

The outer extremity of the shoulder blade.

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

Pertaining to a race or a language neither Aryan nor Semitic. J. Prichard.

Rays of relatively low penetrating power emitted by radium and other radioactive substances, and shown to consist of positively charged particles (perhaps particles of helium) having enormous velocities but small masses. They are slightly deflected by a strong magnetic or electric field.

A species of Anthospermum, a shrub with evergreen leaves, which, when bruised, emit a fragrant odor.

Having a sucker at each extremity, as certain entozoa, by means of which they adhere.

Having the extremities turned back, like the flukes of an anchor; as, an anchored cross. [Sometimes spelt ancred.]

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

hat part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary. -- An"ther*al, a.

A coal-black marble, usually emitting a fetid smell when rubbed; -- called also stinkstone and swinestone.

At the extremity most remote from the hilum, as the embryo, or inverted with respect to the seed, as the radicle. Lindley.

The remaining part of a whole tone after a smaller semitone has been deducted from it; a major semitone. [Obs.]

, will not congeal and freeze, only it will lose the strength, and become appalled in extremity of cold. Holland.

of Syria and Mesopotamia; Aramæan; -- specifically applied to the northern branch of the Semitic family of languages, including Syriac and Chaldee. -- n.

Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] "Assiduate labor." Fabyan.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting. She grows more assiduous in her attendance. Addison.