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A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.

cluding the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

To infect with leprosy. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Inflammation of the eyelids. -- Bleph`a*rit"ic (#), a.

The old game of nineholes.

The game played with such pins; -- in form candlepins, used as a singular.

A sudden suspension of sensation and volition, the body and limbs preserving the position that may be given them, while the action of the heart and lungs continues.

Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit.

A genus of delicate branching corals, made up of minute cells, belonging to the Bryozoa.

A bag in which rennet is kept.

Composed of, or adorned with, gold and ivory.

To call, or name. [Obs.] That other son was cleped Cambalo. Chaucer.

A genus of freshwater leeches, furnished with a proboscis. They feed upon mollusks and worms.

A water clock; a contrivance for measuring time by the graduated flow of a liquid, as of water, through a small aperture. See Illust. in Appendix.

See Kleptomania.

A kind of small black perch.

Elephantiasis. [Obs.] Holland.

A mammal of the order Proboscidia, of which two living species, Elephas Indicus and E. Africanus, and several fossil species, are known. They have a proboscis or trunk, and two large ivory tusks proceeding from the extremity of the upper jaw, and curving upwards. The molar teeth are large and have transverse folds. Ele…