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A red liquid or soft resin extracted from various species of capsicum.

A valatile alkaloid extracted from Capsicum annuum or from capsicin.

A genus of plants of many species, producing capsules or dry berries of various forms, which have an exceedingly pungent, biting taste, and when ground form the red of Cayenne pepper of commerce.

An American bird of the genus Cassicus, allied to the starlings and orioles, remarkable for its skillfully constructed and suspended nest; the crested oriole. The name is also sometimes given to the piping crow, an Australian bird.

s . . . have given to Sir Walter Scott a pile of forehead which is unpleassing and cataphysical. De Quincey.

character in any language. In is once raised him to the rank of a legitimate English classic. Macaulay.

or rank, especially in literature or art. Give, as thy last memorial to the age, One classic drama, and reform the stage. Byron. Mr. Greaves may justly be reckoned a classical author on this subject [Roman weights and coins]. Arbuthnot.

A classical idiom, style, or expression; a classicism.

One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art. Ruskin.

The quality of being classical.

In a classical manner; according to the manner of classical authors.

A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.

One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.

Of or relating to algebra; as, cossic numbers, or the cossic art. [Obs.] "Art of numbers cossical." Digges (1579).

Sick from excess in eating or drinking. [Obs.] "Cropsick drunkards." Tate. -- Crop"sick`ness, n. [Obs.] Whitlock.

The root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica, Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as an active cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.

Drying; desiccative. -- n.

To dry up; to deprive or exhaust of moisture; to preserve by drying; as, to desiccate fish or fruit. Bodies desiccated by heat or age. Bacon.

The act of desiccating, or the state of being desiccated.

Drying; tending to dry. Ferrand. -- n. (Med.)