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Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

Having power to foretell future events; prophetic; fatiloquent; as, the fatidical oak. [R.] Howell. -- Fa*tid"i*cal*ly, adv.

Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon.

Fetidness.

The quality or state of being fetid.

The twelfth month of the French republican calendar; -- commencing August 18, and ending September 16. See Vendémiaire.

Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

A blastostyle.

by larval tapeworms, as Echinococcus and Coenurus. See these words in the Vocabulary. Hydatid of Morgagni (Anat.), one of the small pedunculated bodies found between the testicle and the head of the epididymis, and supposed to be a remnant of the Müllerian duct.

Situated between the external and internal carotid arteries; as, an intercarotid ganglion.

A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin. [Written also isatyde.]

A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance.

Broad-toothed.

The season of Lenten or Lent.

One of certain very minute whitish or colorless granules occurring in the protoplasm of plants and supposed to be the nuclei around which starch granules will form.

Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache. Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.

Any one of several metameric alkaloids, C5H3N.(CH3)2, of the pyridine series, obtained from bone oil as liquids, and having peculiar pungent odors. These alkaloids are also called respectively dimethyl pyridine, ethyl pyridine, etc.

und of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.

To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune. [Obs.]