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A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

The science of worship; history, doctrine, and interpretation of liturgies.

The science treating of liturgical matters; a treatise on, or description of, liturgies. Shipley.

Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. " Lustful orgies." Milton.

A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.

e a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies. Shenstone.

animals and plants, treating of the forms of organs and describing their varieties, homologies, and metamorphoses. See Tectology, and Promorphology.

One whose affections and energies are withered. Mummy brown, a brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs. -- Mummy wheat (Bot.), wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believ…

tained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style. Hangs odes upon hawthorns and elegies on brambles. Shak. O! run; prevent them with thy humble ode, And lay it lowly at his blessed feet. Milton. Ode factor, one who makes, or who traffics in, odes; -- used contemptuously.

e. He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology, geology, mineralogy, and all other ologies whatsoever. De Quincey.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, orgies. Elton.

A frantic revel; drunken revelry. See Orgies

To cover with excuses; to conceal the enormity of, by excuses and apologies; to extenuate; as, to palliate faults. They never hide or palliate their vices. Swift.

That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of children.

A small medicated bougie. Pencil case, a holder for pencil lead. -- Pencil flower (Bot.), an American perennial leguminous herb (Stylosanthes elatior). -- Pencil lead, a slender rod of black lead, or the like, adapted for insertion in a holder.

The emblem of the generative power in nature, carried in procession in the Bacchic orgies, or worshiped in various ways.

See Faro. Pharaoh's chicken (Zoöl.), the gier-eagle, or Egyptian vulture; -- so called because often sculpured on Egyptian monuments. It is nearly white in color. -- Pharaoh's rat (Zoöl.), the common ichneumon.

is also given locally to several other fishes, as the bur fish. [Written also porgee, porgie, and paugy.]

the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

rom which omens are drawn; a portent; as, eclipses and meteors were anciently deemed prodigies. So many terrors, voices, prodigies, May warn thee, as a sure foregoing sign. Milton.