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Of or pertaining to the cypress.

Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.

Atropine; -- called also daturia and daturina.

Quality of being derogatory.

uality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.

The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.

ching; instruction. He taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine, Hearken. Mark iv. 2.

Sorrow; wretchedness. [Obs.]

r timidity, especially of something supernatural. [Written also eiryness.] The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. De Quincey.

Belonging to, or made of, amber.

The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.

To teach; to indoctrinate. [Obs.] Donne.

To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger.

A colorless crystalline substance, C20H22O10, extracted from certain lichens, as the various species of Rocella. It is a derivative of orsellinic acid. So called because of certain red compounds derived from it. Called also erythric acid.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Eschara, or family Escharidæ.

An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil.

Pertaining to an estuary; estuary.

Causing hunger; eating; corroding. [Obs.] Wiseman.

Pertaining to the region of the vomer and the base of the ethmoid in the skull. Ethmovomerine plate (Anat.), a cartilaginous plate beneath the front of the fetal brain which the ethmoid region of the skull is developed.

, evolved from potassium chlorate and hydrochloric acid. It is supposed to consist of chlorine tetroxide with some free chlorine.