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romatic, bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.

the sepulcher. John xx. 1. A whited sepulcher. Fig.: Any person who is fair outwardly but unclean or vile within. See Matt. xxiii.27.

serves as a locomotive organ, by guiding and confining the jet of water. Called also siphuncle. See Illust. under Loligo, and Dibranchiata.

Of or pertaining to the siphuncle.

Having a siphuncle. Huxley.

To make dirty or unclean on the surface; to foul; to dirty; to defile; as, to soil a garment with dust. Our wonted ornaments now soiled and stained. Milton.

irty. [Obs.] A sordid god; down from his hoary chin A length of beard descends, uncombed, unclean. Dryden.

Placed irregularly and distantly; scattered; -- applied to branches, leaves, peduncles, and the like.

The petiole, pedicel, or peduncle, of a plant.

Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.

A little branch which connects a fruit, flower, or leaf with a main branch; a peduncle, pedicel, or petiole; as, the stem of an apple or a cherry.

Cæsar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Shak. Stern as tutors, and as uncles hard. Dryden. These barren rocks, your stern inheritance. Wordsworth.

Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it. Gray.

A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.

Situated beneath the peduncle; as, the subpeduncular lobe of the cerebellum.

Supported on, or growing from, a very short stem; having a short peduncle.

The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing. Poison sumac. (Bot.) See under Poison.

Growing above the axil; inserted above the axil, as a peduncle. See Suprafoliaceous.

Inserted into the stem above the leaf, petiole, or axil, as a peduncle or flower.

fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell.