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Same as Anchylosis.

l walls. Called also miner's anæmia, tunnel disease, brickmaker's anæmia, Egyptian chlorosis.

A figure which consists in repeating the same word in a different sense; as, Learn some craft when young, that when old you may live without craft.

The period or state of full expansion in a flower. Gray.

iners, due to the inhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner's phthisis.

Transformation into the form of a human being.

An antithesis in which the members are repeated in inverse order.

Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength; resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of an opposite principle or quality.

The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

The putting of one case for another.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.

Enumeration of parts or particulars.

Same as Apheresis.

The dropping of a letter or syllable from the beginning of a word; e. g., cute for acute.

The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

on in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

Any one of the thicker and denser of the deep fasciæ which cover, invest, and the terminations and attachments of, many muscles. They often differ from tendons only in being flat and thin. See Fascia.

A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Cæsar, iii. 2.]