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Geometry. -- Analytic language, a noninflectional language or one not characterized by grammatical endings. -- Analytical table (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Any inflammatory affection of the throat or faces, as the quinsy, malignant sore throat, croup, etc., especially such as tends to produce suffocation, choking, or shortness of breath. Angina pectoris, a peculiarly painful disease, so named from a sense of suffocating contraction or tightening of the lower part of the c…

A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.

A group of herbivorous mammals characterized by having the hoofs in a single series around the foot, as the elephant, rhinoceros, etc.

Good against an inflammatory fever. -- n.

A dangerous inflammatory swelling of a horse's breast, just opposite the heart.

Counteracting inflammation.

Inflammation of the aorta.

A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadæ, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadruma…

Mammals which have no placenta.

Pertaining to an apostrophe, grammatical or rhetorical.

Inflammation of the vermiform appendix.

Inflammation of the arachnoid membrane.

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

Inflammation of an artery or arteries. Dunglison.

Any inflammation of the joints, particularly the gout.

way. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring ca…

An East Indian insectivorous mammal of the genus Tupaia.

One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated fingers, legs, and tail. The common bats are small and insectivorous. See Cheiroptera and Vampire. Bat tick (Zoöl.), a wingless, dipterous insect of the genus Nycteribia, parasitic on bats.…

A small inflammatory tumor; a pustule. [Prov. Eng.]