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Of or pertaining to jalap.

A glucoside found in the stems of the jalap plant and scammony. It is a strong purgative.

A genus of huge, carnivorous, dinosaurian reptiles from the Cretaceous formation of the United States. They had very large hind legs and tail, and are supposed to have been bipedal. Some of the species were about eighteen feet high.

A malapert person. Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my authority Dryden. -- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- Mal"a*pert`ness, n.

A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.

Any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive rocks allied to basalt.

To lap over; to lap.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

A large extinct ostrichlike bird of New Zealand.

Past; as, preterlapsed ages. [R.] Glanvill.

The falling down of a part through the orifice with which it is naturally connected, especially of the uterus or the rectum. Dunglison.

Prolapse. [ Written also prolaption.] [Obs.]

Prolapse.

generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relaps into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed. That task performed, [preachers] relapse into themselves. Cowper.

One who relapses. Bp. Hall.

Marked by a relapse; falling back; tending to return to a former worse state. Relapsing fever (Med.), an acute, epidemic, contagious fever, which prevails also endemically in Ireland, Russia, and some other regions. It is marked by one or two remissions of the fever, by articular and muscular pains, and by the presence…

Imperfectly changed into stone. Kirwan.

See Sheldafle.