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Inflammation of the testicles.

A variety of allanite occurring in slender prismatic crystals.

a laminated intertexture of albite and orthoclase, usually of different colors. -- Per*thit"ic, a.

See Peshito.

from Hebrew; also, the incomplete Syriac version of the New Testament. [Written also peschito.]

Pythoness; witch. [Obs.]

A salt of phosphorous acid.

Native lead phosphate with lead chloride, occurring in bright green and brown hexagonal crystals and also massive; -- so called because a fused globule crystallizes in cooling.

Of or pertaining to rachitis; affected by rachitis; rickety.

Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.

A dissecting instrument for opening the spinal canal. [Written also rachiotome.]

See Rachitis.

A collection of vedic hymns, songs, or verses, forming the first part of each Veda.

Any fossil cephalopod shell of the genus Scaphites, belonging to the Ammonite family and having a chambered boat-shaped shell. Scaphites are found in the Cretaceous formation.

A thin leafike appendage (the exopodite) of the second maxilla of decapod crustaceans. It serves as a pumping organ to draw the water through the gill cavity.

The substance of the medullary sheath.

A tree that furnished the precious wood of which the ark, tables, altars, boards, etc., of the Jewish tabernacle were made; -- now believed to have been the wood of the Acacia Seyal, which is hard, fine grained, and yellowish brown in color.

The wood of the shittah tree.

A shuttle. [Obs.] Chapman.

A shuttlecock. [Obs.]