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(Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever.

word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper. As they have transmitted the benefit to us, it is but reasonable we should suffer the appendant calamity. Jer. Taylor.

tects of their own happiness. Milton. A French woman is a perfect architect in dress. Coldsmith.

The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness. Goldsmith.

arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. Goldsmith.

cturer; one whose occupation requires skill or knowledge of a particular kind, as a silversmith.

principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity. W. Smith.

equence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.

ome crystals which exhibit a star- shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.

Inability to transmit radiant; impermeability to heat. Tyndall.

Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

An inordinate desire for some supposed good. All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith.

ad; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. C. J. Smith. To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.

Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

oss section of a girder. -- Optic axis of a crystal, the direction in which a ray of transmitted light suffers no double refraction. All crystals, not of the isometric system, are either uniaxial or biaxial. -- Optic axis, Visual axis (Opt.), the straight line passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicula…

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.