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A breaking asunder; disruption.

A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part of the body; a poultice. Dunglison.

A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points.

Modeled in wax; as, a ceroplastic figure.

The art of modeling in wax.

A white grape, esteemed for the table.

The process of forming an artificial tip or part of a lip, by using for the purpose a piece of healthy tissue taken from some neighboring part.

An instrument to guid the hands and fingers of pupils in playing on the piano, etc.

A plastid containing chlorophyll, developed only in cells exposed to the light. Chloroplasts are minute flattened granules, usually occurring in great numbers in the cytoplasm near the cell wall, and consist of a colorless ground substance saturated with chlorophyll pigments. Under light of varying intensity they exhib…

A granule of chlorophyll; -- also called chloroleucite.

An embryonic cell which develops into a pigment cell.

A protoplasmic granule of some other color than green; -- also called chromoleucite.

ary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony. Palfrey.

A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.

With clashing.

To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

Furnished with tendrils.

p of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

American colleges and universities, a day of the commencement season on which the senior class celebrates the completion of its course by exercises conducted by the members, such as the reading of the class histories and poem, the delivery of the class oration, the planting of the class ivy, etc.