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An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates an object to be examined with the microscope; -- called also compressorium.

That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair. The private concerns of fanilies. Addison.

ent by the organs of nutrition. [Obs.] Food is concocted, the heart beats, the blood circulates. Cheyne.

An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory. Bacon.

nstitution or health; as, a constitutional walk. [Colloq.] Constitutional law, law that relates to the constitution, as a permanent system of political and juridical government, as distinguished from statutory and common law, which relate to matters subordinate to such constitution.

One who contemplates. Sir T. Browne.

contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead. Corrugated iron, sheet iron bent into a series of alternate ridges and grooves in parallel lines, giving it greater stiffness. -- Corrugated paper, a thick, coarse paper corrugated in ord…

A tune which regulates the dance.

to measures or importance or nesessity. -- Ecumenical council (Eccl.), an assembly of prelates or divines convened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline. -- Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. [U.S.]…

The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

One of the pairs of plates of two metals which compose a voltaic battery; -- called a voltaic couple or galvanic couple.

ient times were numerous in the lakes of both countries. They may be regarded as the very latest class of prehistoric strongholds, reaching their greatest development in early historic times, and surviving through the Middle Ages. See also Lake dwellings, under Lake. Encyc. Brit.

ss. Cribriform cells (Bot.), those which have here and there oblique or transverse sieve plates, or places perforated with many holes.

ied woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con. -- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.

An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.

Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- said of certain fishes.

One who accumulates; one who collects. [R.]

name given to several species of Pleuronectes . TheAmerican rough dab is Hippoglossoides platessoides.

a pad or other device used by printers, engravers, etc., as for dabbing type or engraved plates with ink.

A pad or ball of rags, covered over with canvas, for inking plates; a dabber.