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ondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

ion, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

In a flushed or blushing state.

tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles. "The spirit of the age." Prescott. Truth, in some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic a…

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

s charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

Furnished with an aisle or aisles.

s of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

Whiteness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

State or mode of being nourished. Bacon.

In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent; as, to keep the fire alive; to keep the affections alive.

and usually a little lime and magnesia. Two main classes of alkali are commonly distinguished: black alkali, which may be any alkaline carbonate, but which practically consists of sodium carbonate (sal soda), which is highly corrosive and destructive to vegetation; and white alkali, characterized by the presence of so…

Furnished with alleys; forming an alley. "An alleyed walk." Sir W. Scott.