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A fantastic. [Obs.] Shak.

tion; a vagary of the imagination; whim; caprice; humor. Is not this something more than fantasy Shak. A thousand fantasies Being to throng into my memory. Milton.

State of worry or excitement; fidget; fuss; also, indisposition; pet; sulks. [Slang]

Capable of being granted.

The act or process of implantating.

enchantment, or affecting other magical results; enchantment. "Mysterious ceremony and incantation." Burke.

Dealing by enchantment; magical. Sir T. Browne.

A title borne by every one of the daughters of the kings of Spain and Portugal, except the eldest.

Quality of being instantaneous. Shenstone.

ithout any perceptible duration of time; as, the passage of electricity appears to be instantaneous. His reason saw With instantaneous view, the truth of things. Thomson.

Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.

See Lanthanum.

Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic acid of the uric acid group, obtained by the decomposition of allantoin, and usually called allanturic acid.

See Coleoptera and Sea devil.

a. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

A merchant. [Obs.] Shak.

et; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Combining forms signifying all, every; as, panorama, pantheism, pantagraph, pantograph. Pan- becomes pam- before b or p, as pamprodactylous.

See Pan-.

, n. See Pantofle. [Obs.]