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pally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

A curved fold or process of the dura mater or the peritoneum; esp., one of the partitionlike folds of the dura mater which extend into the great fissures of the brain.

To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden.

Any bird of the Australian genus Rhipidura, in which the tail is spread in the form of a fan during flight. They belong to the family of flycatchers.

Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

labor or any bodily or mental exertion; to harass with toil; to exhaust the strength or endurance of; to tire.

d to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

A sudden burst or gust of wind of short duration. Snow, and hail, and stormy gust and flaw. Milton. Like flaws in summer laying lusty corn. Tennyson.

Passing swiftly away; not durable; transient; transitory; as, the fleeting hours or moments.

In a good sense, tenderness of feeling; gentleness. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. Cowper.

n or adversity without murmuring, depression, or despondency; passive courage; resolute endurance; firmness in confronting or bearing up against danger or enduring trouble. Extolling patience as the truest fortitude. Milton. Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues. Locke.

Easily broken; fragile; not firm or durable; liable to fail and perish; easily destroyed; not tenacious of life; weak; infirm. That I may know how frail I am. Ps. xxxix. 4. An old bent man, worn and frail. Lowell.

ror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.

A plant having a woody, durable stem, but less than a tree; a shrub.

Not fixed; not durable; liable to disappear or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward. Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occ…

Growing suddenly, but not substantial or durable.

ach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

Endurance; pluck.

A variety of gesso which when dried becomes hard and durable, often used in making bas-relief casts, which are colored and mounted in elaborate frames.

cterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.